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Re: Blackhole Routes

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Thu Sep 30 17:21:58 2004

>> If every BGP session in your network is protected by a max-prefix
>> limit, no matter who leaks, the damage will be limited and contained.
> true, also not univeral,

the problem with max-prefix is it does not say *which* prefixes.
so even if the drop-bgp stoopidity is corrected, you could end
up holding the bogus prefixes, not the good ones.

randy