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Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Mon Aug 05 18:57:07 2002

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 06:41:22PM -0400, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
> 
> I am currently announcing only my aggregate routes, but I have lately
> thought about the possibility of someone mistakenly, or maliciously,
> announcing more specifics from my space.
> The best solution for an emergency response to that (that I can think
> of), is registering all of the /24's that make up my network, so if
> someone should announce a more-specific, I can always announce the most
> specific that would be accepted (assuming they don't announce the /24's
> too, it should be a problem avoided)
> 
> Does anyone else have any other ideas on ways to quickly deal with
> someone else announcing your more specifics, since contacting their NOC
> is likely going to take a long time...

Seems like a remarkable waste of time and IRR resources. That is why NOCs
exist, so you can contact them quickly and make those announcements stop.

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