Re: BGP filtering of supernets out of classful space

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> A provider in China has been assigned addresses in the
> traditional class C space.  APNIC's assignment is a /16 for this allocation.
> Said provider, trying to be good Internet citizens are announcing
> only aggregates of /16.
>
> However, they're running into several providers that are filtering
> the announcements because they aren't /24.

i can only imagine that these providers are confused by one vendor's
(recently fixed) rather baroque filter rule syntax.

randy