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Re: Blackhole Routes


From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:32:58 +0000 (GMT)




On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

If every BGP session in your network is protected by a max-prefix
limit, no matter who leaks, the damage will be limited and contained.
true, also not univeral,

the problem with max-prefix is it does not say *which* prefixes.
so even if the drop-bgp stoopidity is corrected, you could end
up holding the bogus prefixes, not the good ones.

true, however, my point was that not even the basics are being done :(


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