-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:

No, most operators do filter BGP announcements. I know it, because I have read it on Cnet:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9878655-7.html

Dunno -- looks like McCullagh got it pretty much spot on: "At the moment, large network providers tend to trust that other network providers are behaving reasonably--and aren't intentionally trying to hijack someone else's Internet addresses. And errors that do arise tend to be fixed quickly by manual intervention." I may have missed it, but I didn't see any account of pervasive BGP filtering being done in the Internet... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHw9wPq1pz9mNUZTMRAn86AJ9rsXAoSVKt5MZl1qJiyDwW5SuhngCfToYR pmt3PBk5LYSAazZBtVR5yfs= =Ov9W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/