nanog mailing list archives

Re: Regional AS model


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:53:56 +0100

On 27/03/2011 07:53, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Accepting default is not ugly, especially if you don't even have a
backbone connecting your sites.  And even if we could argue over
default's aesthetic qualities (which, honestly, I don't see how we can),
there is no rational person who would consider it a hack.

accepting default has one important drawback for smaller networks: it causes loose urpf not to work for transit connections, and this causes remotely triggered blackhole discards not to work as expected. Depending on your requirements, this may or may not be a concern to worry about.

Nick


Current thread: