advisory attribute in IRR
Curtis Villamizar
curtis at ans.net
Wed Sep 18 00:31:31 UTC 1996
In message <199609170611.BAA18883 at westie.gi.net>, Alan Hannan writes:
>
> Curtis,
>
> While they don't inherently do anything terribly nifty, they do maintain
> stateful legacy information for some folks. ( Especially folks who
> were around when AS690 ruled the world :)
>
> Some folks have built their scripted route filter list generation
> off of the information listed in the advisory field.
>
> Maybe those people should do it in another way, but the advisory
> field is actively used be some.
>
> -alan
> chief harbinger of advisory scripts
Hmmm....
grep av: *.db.save | awk '{print $2;}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
1 AS2551
1 AS3819
1 AS4690
1 AS6113
1 AS6461
1 AS6467
1 AS93
2 AS4200
2 AS6151
3 AS3491
7 AS668
8 AS1800
8 AS6076
12 AS6122
64 AS3561
70 AS1239
186 AS1275
60957 AS690
Well.. I stand corrected. It's just the 60,957 AS690 advisories that
do absolutely nothing.
Curtis
> ......... Curtis Villamizar is rumored to have said:
> ]
> ]
> ] In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.960915124710.8860B-100000 at alive.ampr.ab.ca>, Marc
> Sle
> ] mko writes:
> ] > Can anyone give me a pointer to information on what the advisory attribut
> e
> ] > in the IRR does and who pays any attention to that attribute?
> ] >
> ] > Thanks.
> ]
> ]
> ] They do nothing and no one pays attention to them. They used to do
> ] something for about 5 months but everone hated them.
> ]
> ] Curtis
> ]
> ] ps- blame Merit. :-)
> ]
>
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