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Re: Long AS Path
From: Hunter Fuller <hf0002+nanog () uah edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:40:20 +0000
This could just be ignorance, but based on this thread, I'm not sure what risk we would be managing, as DFZ router operators, by filtering those paths. They seem silly, but harmless (similar to, for instance, painting a nyan cat on a graph by announcing prefixes at certain times). On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:32 AM James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com> wrote:
On 24 June 2017 at 13:10, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:James, By "experienced by someone else" I mean someone who is not one of yourcustomers.The better strategy, I think, is to not filter long paths unless youhave a reason to see their creating a problem. Otherwise you're just operating on superstition, no?-mel via cellHi Mel, I mean this as a rhetorical question as we could talk until the end of time about this; what is the difference between operating on superstition and trying to be pro-active? Both for me fall under the category of "risk management". Cheers, James.
-- -- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure
Current thread:
- Re: Long AS Path, (continued)
- Re: Long AS Path Jon Lewis (Jun 22)
- Re: Long AS Path Stephen Satchell (Jun 22)
- Re: Long AS Path Ryan L (Jun 23)
- Re: Long AS Path Tom Beecher (Jun 21)
- Re: Long AS Path Steve Lalonde (Jun 22)
- Re: Long AS Path James Bensley (Jun 23)
- Re: Long AS Path Mel Beckman (Jun 23)
- Re: Long AS Path James Bensley (Jun 24)
- Re: Long AS Path Mel Beckman (Jun 24)
- Re: Long AS Path James Bensley (Jun 25)
- Re: Long AS Path Hunter Fuller (Jun 26)
- RE: Long AS Path Michael Hare (Jun 26)
- Re: Long AS Path Mel Beckman (Jun 26)
- RE: Long AS Path Jerry Cloe (Jun 26)