Justin Shore wrote:
The ASN I'm referring to is that of the Russian Business Network. A Google search should turn up plenty of info for those that haven't heard of them.
Thanks for the replies. They were along the lines of what I was expecting (as-path ACL filtering & route-maps). I was wondering if there was some new trick that was easier and more robust. This will work though! I saw that AS40989 fell off the 'Net a while back. That happened once or twice before if memory serves me correctly and they came back a while later in force. We'll see what happens this time. Some of RBN's old netblocks are also no longer in the global tables. I'm not sure what's going on with that but... I'm going to have to do a little more research on their current Inet sources to see if I can locate them. It looks like Wikipedia has a fair amount of information and a large number of links to additional information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network I'm going to have to put a little more effort towards getting my blackhole operational. If anyone has any good links to docs or advice on what not to do I'd love to see them. I've found a great deal of information on the 'Net but lessons learned from those who've already been there done that is always welcome. I hadn't considered what Danny pointed out about the origin AS advertising other routes to create an effective DoS mechanism. That would be a concern and would require a great deal of forethought. Null routing prefixes would probably be the best course of action. Thanks for the insight. Justin