[nsp] 82/8 allocated to RIPE

[Ryan O'Connell]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:20:47 -0600 (CST) Rob Thomas <robt@cymru.com> wrote:
> ] I would like to see IANA and the all the RIRs actually announce the
> list of
> ] unallocated /8s and blackhole all of them at a couple of dozen routers
> 
> ...only if those routers are EXTREMELY well protected and all adhere to
> the same set of administrative and security best practices.  The blast
> radius of a mistake or a hack in such a configuration could be quite
> large.

This could be said to be true of *any* router with reasonably unfiltered
access to the global routing table -- almost any core router run by UUnet,
Level-3, <insert other Tier-1 provider here>.

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