Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:29:17AM -0400, Matt Levine wrote:
> In a real world scenario, I bumped into Verio's RPF peer filters 
> yesterday.
>
> Due to the large outage at 200 paul, the /19 that one of my /24's is 
> out of went away.  Obviously due to prefix filtering policies, verio 
> didn't have my /24.  I had several people complain who were multihomed, 
> and did have the /24 from their other carrier(s).  Unfortunately, my 
> best path to these customers was via verio, who's rpf promptly blocked 
> my return traffic :(

        Speaking about this specific issue,  since there was no return
path in our RIB/FIB, we dropped the packets, yes.  If you were annoucing
the /19 or something that fit our filtering policy (in your
alternate locations) you would not have had issues.

        - Jared

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