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Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Tue Aug 06 23:54:37 2002

Whats a tier 1??

ps:  follow the AS path, call AS's in the path from the bad announcment.
Get the peers to stop receiving it.

it might be wack-a-mole, but thats part of the job..


On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:59:15PM -0400, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
> 
> Yes, it is lovely when things work out like that.
> My one experience with this problem was with Telia announcing my more
> specifics, and their US NOC referred me to their Europe NOC, and there
> no one spoke English.  They are a tier1, so they don't have any upstream
> to call.  It took 20 phone calls and more than an hour to get to someone
> who cared enough to do anything about it.
> 
> --Phil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Derek Samford
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 2:51 PM
> To: [email protected]; 'E.B. Dreger'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Deaggregating for emergency purposes
> 
> 
> 
> Phil,
> 	You would think, after hearing about 30 people with clue+++
> talk, you may realize that this is a patently *bad* thing and should not
> be done. If your route's are being hijacked you can generally solve your
> problems in 2-5 phone calls...That's all it's *ever* taken me. 1. Call
> their NOC. 2. If not helpful call their upstream. 3. Call a couple of
> Tier 1's who are transit for their upstream, and have them filter it. 
> Done deal, in the time that you've managed to call your ISP and (maybe)
> gotten about half the internet to reach you, you've solved the problem
> for the whole net and have ZERO reachability concerns. This is my first
> and last post to this ridiculous thread.
> 
> Derek
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Phil Rosenthal
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: 'E.B. Dreger'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Deaggregating for emergency purposes
> 
> 
> ---
> So explain how this is superior to DNS entr(y|ies) stating who your
> peers and upstreams are.  And there's nothing to say that one could not
> specify allowed filters in DNS, too.
> 
> If someone wants me to advertise 192.168.7/24, and DNS indicates the
> proper netblock is 192.168.0/19 and their ASN is not origin or adjacent
> hop, I'll be suspicious.  What I do from there becomes a policy
> question; I probably would contact the IP block owner to verify the
> request.
> ---
> 
> My way isn't superior at all to a secure BGP solution, but until that
> exists, I need a choice.
> 
> I am definitely on the bandwagon for the need for a secure BGP.
> 
> --Phil
> 
> 
>