On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
On Wednesday, May 07, 2014 07:28:46 PM Peter Rubenstein wrote:
Operationally speaking, AS1 should not be leaking routes from one upstream to the other. Bad route policy.
ideally it'd be nice to be valley-free... so to speak.
Also, AS3 should not accept routes from AS1 that don't belong to it. Customer router filtering would prevent this.
always with the route filtering... routes want to be free man, free!
How I wish this happened in real life.
We are chasing route leaks several AS's down the path that are not even remotely connected to us on a weekly basis. But I guess that's what they pay us for :-(.
if only there were some technology that could be used to thwart such things.