backbones filtering unsanctioned sites

[morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Ken Chase <math at sizone.org> wrote:

> And because they're continuing to announce the /20, we run into their
> blackhole unless we manually filter that /20. This is going to become
> unworkable in short order once a bigger chunk of the internet starts doing
> this.
>
>
I bet an answer from cogent here is: "you can always TE around 174"

that's hard for end-users, but the direct customer can certainly do this...
and yea, sucks :(


> /kc
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:03:11PM -0500, Christopher Morrow said:
>   >On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>   >
>   >> Have we determined that this is intentional vs. some screw up?
>   >>
>   >>
>   >if you look at the cogent LG it's pretty clear that the announce
>   >reachability for the /20 that includes the tpb /32.. and that the /32 is
>   >particularly routed elsewhere, and that the 'elsewhere' is coming form a
>   >bgp speaker who's DNS says something along the lines of: "blackhole"...
>   >
>   >so... err, either someone fat-fingered OR intentionally entered a /32
> into
>   >the config management system :(
>   >
>   >
>   >>
>   >>
>   >>
>   >> -----
>   >> Mike Hammett
>   >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>   >> http://www.ics-il.com
>   >>
>   >> Midwest-IX
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>   >>
>   >> ----- Original Message -----
>   >>
>   >> From: "Brielle Bruns" <bruns at 2mbit.com>
>   >> To: nanog at nanog.org
>   >> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:28:53 PM
>   >> Subject: Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites
>   >>
>   >> On 2/9/17 9:18 PM, Ken Chase wrote:
>   >> > https://torrentfreak.com/internet-backbone-provider-
>   >> cogent-blocks-pirate-bay-and-other-pirate-sites-170209/
>   >> >
>   >> > /kc
>   >> >
>   >>
>   >> Funny. Someone else got back:
>   >>
>   >> "Abuse cannot not provide you a list of websites that may be
>   >> encountering reduced visibility via Cogent"
>   >>
>   >> I almost wish I had a Cogent circuit just to bring this up with an
>   >> account rep. Almost.
>   >>
>   >> I'd very much so view this as a contractual violation on Cogent's
> part.
>   >>
>   >> Cogent keeps contacting me every year wanting to sell me service. This
>   >> will be a good one to bring up when they call me next time.
>   >>
>   >> --
>   >> Brielle Bruns
>   >> The Summit Open Source Development Group
>   >> http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
>   >>
>   >>
>
> --
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