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Re: An informal survey... round II
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:26:12 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, William Herrin wrote:
Why should we announce tiny recycled blocks? If there is a /16 in the swamp in which half the space is free but its all /24's, why wouldn't wouldn't we allocate all the free /24's to a single entity and instruct the entity to announce it as a "holey" /16? The existing /24 holders will override (punch holes in) the /16 for their /24's.
Except when there are /24-holder outages, at which point their traffic gets hijacked by the /16 announcer. Would you want to trust some random company to not take advantage of that situation in any way (collection of passwords, sampling your web traffic, putting up a fake "your org" web site, etc.)? As a holey /16 announcer, would you want all the junk traffic that results from /24-holder outages? What if one of them was running NS's for a popular DNSBL, and their outage basically caused a DDoS attack against your network?
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