Re: UUNet Routing SNAFU

[Steve Meuse <smeuse () bbnplanet com>]

At 09:11 AM 10/8/97 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
> > At this time I am receiving a ton of bogus routes originating from AS701.
> > This
> > AS has hijacked all the /24 subnets of 128.1 through 128.1xx.  Since the
more
> > specific route prevails in the cidr world they have managed to wipe out my
> > network 128.9.0.0 not to mention a hundred other 128.x networks.
>
> Isn't this the kind of problems that the Doran filters are supposed to
prevent?
> I understand that it is not to everyone's benefit to filter on the /19
> boundary like Sprint does but it seems to be prudent to adopt a /8 filter
> on most of the old class A space and a /16 filter on the old class B space.
> Other than the need to update these filters as the former class A space is
> subdivided I can see no major downside.
>
> Comments?

What about the cable providers that have chunks of 24/8?



-Steve