Re: Bogon list

[Joe Abley <jabley () automagic org>]

On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 07:49 , Sean M. Doran wrote:

> | Messy traceroutes make the helpdesk phone ring.
>
> Messy architecture is worse!

Agreed. An inconsistent architecture is a messy one. Why treat exchange 
subnets differently to any other bit of backbone infrastructure? Why 
number point-to-point links with even locally-unique addresses?

Slashdot readers wielding traceroute can make an annoying pain in the 
side of your head, but traceroute and ping are not without their uses. 
Ask people who are cursed with running poorly-documented X.25 networks 
(surely there must be some left) how nice it would be to be able to map 
the network in-band. Ask them why they don't have any hair left, while 
you're at it.

> There's two ways to deal with the "messy traceroute problem":
>
> [messier 1]
>
> [messier 2]

You don't need to deal with the messy traceroute problem if your 
consistent and clean architecture doesn't happen to make traceroute 
mess :)


Joe