Re: RIR filtering & Level3

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Pete Templin wrote:

> 1) ProviderX (L3 in this case) is allowing you to see some of their internal 
> routing information.  If by chance those more-specifics come with MED and you 
> have multiple connections to them, you can choose to make intelligent routing 
> decisions via MED.  You could have circuitous routing though, should you not 
> get the more-specifics over a subset of your connections
>
> 2) ProviderX is demonstrating their incompetence in routing and filtering. 
> This is just an inkling of the goofy stuff and potential landmines lurking 
> within their network.  You should open tickets, escalate to management, and 
> abandon this provider ASAP.

I don't think it's option 1.  We've been a direct Level3 customer for 
several years and though we're not filtering on RIR minimums yet (ask me 
again in January :) we do have some basic sanity filtering in place. 
Level3 isn't sending us anything longer than /24 and hasn't at least in 
recent history (according to my distribute-list).

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