Being blackhole by some one.

Martin Hannigan hannigan at xcom.net
Fri Jan 23 21:28:46 UTC 1998


> 
> > We just being blackhole by some ISP during their provisioning,
> > a few hours ago.  I thought that bogus route should be filtered by 
> > the NAP.  Is there a way to prevent from somebody blackholing you ?
> > It takes a lot of affort to solve this problem, especially those
> > who need to update their router through rrdb automatically.  Which
> > suppose to solve blackhole problem accidentally.
> 
> Could you please explain the issue more specifically.  "Blackhole" could
> have many meanings.
> 
> randy

Blackhole to me means you've been added to a certain someones
SPAM blackhole feed. 

I suspect the interpretation here is accidental announcement.

Regards,

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Martin Hannigan                    V:617.500.0108
Director - Data Networks           F:617.500.0002
XCOM Technologies, INC.            hannigan at xcom.net
Cambridge, MA                      http://www.xcom.net



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