RE: community real-time BGP hijack notification service

[Skywing <Skywing () valhallalegends com>]

Ah, both reasons really; setup mail flow rules, verify mail delivery, and create appropriate whitelist entries if need 
be to make sure that notifications tend not to mysteriously vanish.  All general things that I like to do for any new 
mail-based monitoring system.

- S

-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge () linuxbox org]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:50 PM
To: Andrew Fried
Cc: Skywing; Kevin Oberman; nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: community real-time BGP hijack notification service

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andrew Fried wrote:
> Mail being what it is today, testing message delivery is an excellent
> idea.  I'll implement that feature this weekend.

I think he meant he wants to be able to get an example alert to his inbox
on registration/on request so he can special filters which can wake him
up.

        Gadi.


> Andy
>
> Skywing wrote:
> > It might be useful to have an option to generate an example alert mail for purposes of setting up necessary mail 
> > processing rules and that sort.  Just a thought.
> >
> > - S
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge () linuxbox org]
> > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:13 PM
> > To: Kevin Oberman
> > Cc: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Re: community real-time BGP hijack notification service
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > > Looks interesting, but it only takes a fairly short list of ASNs for a
> > > prefix. For our big CIDR blocks, we have WAY too many ASNs to enter them
> > > all, so it's pretty useless for me. I need to be able to enter at very
> > > least a dozen ASes and I suspect may folks have a LOT more then that.
> >
> > I am sure we can fix that, Thanks for the comment!
> >
> >
> > > For now, I'll enter some shorter pieces from the block, but I'm most
> > > concerned with the pieces that are not currently assigned, so are
> > > available for hijack. I have added the larger, unassigned blocks. I'll
> > > start adding assigned bits and pieces as well as unassigned pieces, but
> > > being able to put all valid origin ASes in the list for the full blocks
> > > would be a lot nicer.
> >
> > Please let us know if you encounter any issues.
> >
> >
> >
> > > --
> > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> > > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
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