AS8584 taking over the internet
Hank Nussbacher
hank at ibm.net.il
Fri Apr 10 07:49:46 UTC 1998
At 07:25 PM 4/9/98 -0400, Scott Huddle wrote:
>I have and remain unconvinced and or confused ;) The proposal allows
>an operator to verify a valid origin AS for a given prefix (i.e. "config"
>sorry if I'm being loose with the word) by using the DNS system with
>"bgp.in-addr" extensions. I'm not sure which part of the random
>route announcement problem that dnssec solves in this case? It can
>help with the "are they indeed are who they say they are", but it
>doesn't solve the "are they supposed to be doing what they said that
>they're doing" case.
Has anyone benchmarked how long it will take to resolve 50,000 bgp.in-addr's
after a line hiccup or a "clear ip bgp *"? -Hank
>
>And you didn't address my paranoia about not trusting the DNS ;)
>
>-scott
>
>> you may wish to read the draft. it did not suggest using the dns to
>> configure. and you may also want to look into dnssec.
>>
>> randy
>>
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