Re: Issue AS and Subnet Announcment on BGP - Conflict with a major TelCO - 30h+ of route flapping unresolved

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

   Thanks.

   ( There is more interesting details but I will reserve myself. (; )

   We're already working on making contact with the upstreams, but 
you're right I forgot about making more specific announcement.

   Thanks again.

Charles Gucker wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:46:35PM -0500, Alain Hebert wrote:
>  
>
> >   Hi,
> >
> >   I know somebody that is experiencing route flapping for more than a 
> > day now and we found out 10h ago that it was due to the announcement of 
> > his subnet by a major TelCO.
> >
> >   Once that telco contacted, we got the run around for 10h now and no 
> > willingness from their part to fix the problem immediately.
> >    
>
> 	Well, a 'normal' solution (short term) would be to announce more 
> specific announcements of your address space, then contact said Telco's
> upstream providers to have your prefix filtered from their connection(s).
> A nicely worded (polite) email/fax would go a long way with the NOC.
>
>         This is of course, if they are not returning your calls, or as
> you say giving you the run around.   I would also try to find a sympathetic
> body at the telco to help to properly resolve the issue, so you can go back
> to announcing only your aggregate netblock.
>
>  
>
> >   We're wondering what is the proper process to make the TelCo correct 
> > their behavior and cooperate?
> >   (ARIN Conflict Resolution Process, etc ... We found nothing about 
> > this situation)
> >    
>
>         ARIN will not step in here.  They allocate resources, they do not
> police or enforce those resources.
>
> charles
>
>  

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