[j-nsp] Am I carrying this route or not ?

[Tobias Heister]

Hi All,

Am 24.03.2013 00:26, schrieb Jeff Wheeler:
> Whoever that person is that said something about "use next-hop-self"
> in this context, either you misunderstood them, or you shouldn't
> listen to them anymore.  That has nothing to do with looking to see if
> your router knows about a route.

This sounds like the OP wants to help the cloudfare guys who send the following mail to DECIX/AMSIX (and probably other IX) yesterday.

> We're currently seeing a very large attack directed to our IP on AMS-IX (X). 
> 
> We request that all peers:
> 
> 1) Don't carry this route (X/22) in your backbone. (you can set next-hop-self, etc). It'll save other security concerns and possible free transit you're giving away to others.
> 2) Filter any traffic within to the AMS-IX exchange fabric (again, X/22), except for your point to [multi]point BGP communications.

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Kind Regards
Tobias Heister