Additions to the NSFNET policy-based routing database
Geoff Huston
G.Huston at aarnet.edu.au
Sat Jul 16 04:45:09 UTC 1994
Steve,
Thanks for your note - yes Jeff Burgan got back to me with more information
relating to the timing of a shift to a full CIDR based advertisement
for Australian nets
>NASA may have reasons for doing it this way. In general, we encourage
>everyone to register any more-specific component pieces not needed in
>the NSFNET/ANSnet configuration files in the Merit RRDB rather than in
>the PRDB. We have a "no configure" option flag in the PRDB to prevent
>a more specific route from being configured if people tell us, but
>bypassing the PRDB for direct RRDB registration is now the preferable
>option in such "no configure" cases.
thanks,
Geoff
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