I am sure that there are foolish people doing foolish things somewhere on the Internet. But perhaps Joe had knowledge of a specific example && possibly "reasoning" from said example as to why they were using a broken configuration as that? – S -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 19:45 To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet On 23/12/2008, at 2:39 PM, Joe Provo wrote:

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:34:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote: [snip]

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Let me rephrase; Are there people who are filtering /24s received from eBGP peers who do not have a default route?

of course.

Curiously, it was really meant as a rhetorical question where the answer was "no". Why are people doing this? Are they lacking clue, or, is there some reasonable purpose? -- Nathan Ward