Re: using IRR tools for BGP route filtering

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:29:04AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Are engineers keeping their managers' in the dark.  Does management
> not know there is a potential solution to the problem.  Or does
> their management really think its Ok their customers are at risk
> of losing service at any time due to unfiltered routes.  When you
> speak with your Cisco sales rep, do you tell them one of the requirements
> is being able to filter the entire route table with multiple peers.

        I think that some of the problem is that not all of the managers
are aware of all the risks related to this, because they have not seen
or heard of any problems related to not using a routing registry.

        Imagine the meeting that gte.net had after their domain name was
transferred to some other dns servers (or so i heard).  I suspect
that a number of them are either aware of the amount of trust that
folks have for one and another, otherwise they are just totally oblivious
to the fact that there are so many ways that there can be problems.

        I suspect in cases where the engineers don't have the ability to
create policies such as their own registries, or configure off of an existing
IRR, or don't have the time to deal with supporting, or configuration
of all the routers off of the tools.  (i mean both internal support and
external support).

        - Jared

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