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Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:22:36 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters everywhere, it'd be the perfect world..The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is trivial.
Maybe, however you can fix that.. RIPE for example uses hierarchical authorisation so you cant add a route on a block you are not allocated, the broken part here is that the non-European IRRs are not run by the registry and therefore accept anything.. Steve
Current thread:
- RE: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses, (continued)
- RE: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Mark Borchers (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Haesu (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Steve Carter (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses John Payne (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Leo Bicknell (Aug 27)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses John Payne (Aug 27)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 27)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses william (Aug 28)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Joe Abley (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 26)
- Message not available
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Haesu (Aug 26)
- Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- RE: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses Terry Baranski (Aug 26)
- Re: Route Programming (was Re: bgp route-map) Leo Bicknell (Aug 25)