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Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes
From: David Miller <dmiller () tiggee com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 09:42:14 -0400
On 5/3/2011 6:17 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 2, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Joe Abley wrote:It's perhaps worth noting that there is work in the IETF to recommend that every prefix originated as part of an anycast cloud uses a unique origin AS (see<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-unique-origin-as-00>). I'm not personally convinced of the arguments in the draft, but mentioning it in this thread seems reasonable.I'm also not convinced of the arguments in the draft, since it argues that it would be a best-practice for me to originate my address space from more than 8,000 different ASNs, when I currently do just fine advertising it from three. I'd much rather there not exist a document that clueless people can point at and claim is a "best common practice" when it's neither best nor common. -Bill
+1 We are not convinced and are not planning on implementing this draft either. -DM
Current thread:
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes, (continued)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes John Kristoff (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Yaoqing(Joey) Liu (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes John Kristoff (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes bmanning (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Yaoqing(Joey) Liu (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes bmanning (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Yaoqing(Joey) Liu (May 09)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Randy Bush (May 10)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes bmanning (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes David Miller (May 03)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Danny McPherson (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes David Miller (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Danny McPherson (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes David Miller (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes Danny McPherson (May 05)
- Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes bmanning (May 05)