On Sun, Aug 12 2001 at 03:15:58%P -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
This may sound odd, coming from me who is a halfway alarmist, but:
1) how is this really a 'problem'? Don't get me wrong, announcing a reserved AS is as bad as announcing 10/8, but, what did it break? Is it enough of a problem to spam nanog about it?
2) Did you call/email/page/carrier-pidgeon Digex/ICI about this?
1) I don't consider my post SPAM or fluf or anything else other than operational content. A well known and respected carrier is announcing a reserved AS. It didn't break anything here but, the announcement wouldn't make it into anyones tables who was using 64620 in a confederation and as a result, it very well could be breaking something somewhere. Beyond that, it doesn't set a very good example for others. I guess I'll have to rethink my "lower AS = higher clue" theory.
2) It's not what it broke but, what's broken that is allowing it to happen to begin with. It's fairly apparent that someone neglected to add 64620 to a confederation statement. (And doesn't have anything in place to prevent leaking reserved AS's either.)
This has nothing to do with confederations. This was a misconfigured peer that was a mistake anyone could have made. It was fixed and hopefully nobody was hurt to badly by this error.
3) No. I did not contact Digex/ICI directly because:
a) I'm not a direct customer. b) I'm not a direct peer. c) The leak has shown up in the IPMA (http://www.merit.edu/ipma/)listings for the past 4 days and it's obvious that they're not monitoring IPMA or don't care.
I assure you we do care and we do try to keep up on the merit pages but things can get hectic and things can get missed. I thank you for the heads-up post that did in-fact lead to the problem solved. I frown upon the technical speculation and the name bashing.
--- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc
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