Re: Route leak in Bangladesh

["Joe Abley" <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 1 Jul 2015, at 11:03, Jared Mauch wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:54:16PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > On 01/07/2015 15:51, Mark Tinka wrote:
> > > I found RPSL complicated a few years ago, and sort of put that on 
> > > the
> > > back-burner.
> >
> > you probably want to ignore more rpsl constructs and depend solely on
> > as-sets, aut-nums and route/route6 objects.  RPSL is not going to 
> > live up
> > to your expectations.
>
>         Yes, like any technology there are lots of knobs that one could
> use but are not recommended.
>
>         You just need these few objects and life will be simple.

... as long as the people responsible for maintaining those as-sets 
don't get confused and include lots of other inappropriate as-sets by 
reference, right?

The idea of configuring this stuff from the IRR is great in terms of 
distributing the ops cycles in the right places, but it doesn't help 
with verifying that the end result isn't insane, as I think you and Mike 
have described on this list over the past couple of days.


Joe