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Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites
From: William Waites <wwaites () tardis ed ac uk>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:05:50 +0000
Looks like mostly proxy/torrent sites on that IP address.
That may be so. Maybe it isn’t particularly objectionable for Cogent to not to carry traffic to some particular destination that they don’t like. As you point out they already only offer a partial view of the Internet. What is very problematic is that they announce that this destination is reachable via them, and then drop traffic. This is a problem for the same reason that hijacking by announcing more specifics is a problem. The bgp tables become no longer a source of truth about reachability. If this kind of behaviour from transit networks becomes the norm, we are in big trouble. William Waites LFCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Jason Canady (Feb 11)
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