Re: AS8584 taking over the internet

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

On a dark and stormy night, Al Reuben said:
> That is rediculous. Sounds like better filtering is needed.

        Correct.

        If everyone filtered their connections, this would be a lot
better.  You can't filter your peers (easily in a way that it can scale
well), but if you filter customer connections on a per-prefix basis,
(and/or by as-path), you can reduce this type of nastyness.

        Customers should not be trusted, and peers should be looked upon
with a great deal of concern, because they can send you anything pretty
much.

        route-servers are a bit more scalable, but because most people don't
keep their RR objects in place, it makes it a bit tougher to use those
tools, not counting other things.  Most folks end up creating their own.

        - Jared

> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, philip bridge wrote:
>
> > Seems like...
> >
> > http://www.academ.com/nanog/feb1998/origin.html
> >
> > ...is long overdue.
>
>
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