AS1853 announcing default

Wed May 6 15:07:52 UTC 1998

Forwarded for a colleague.

- paul

>Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 03:52:39 -0400
>From: "Paul G. Donner" <pdonner at cisco.com>
>Subject: for NANOG
>
>Paul:
>
>I currently cannot send email to NANOG.  Could you forward this for
>me if you feel it is relevant to NANOG?
>
>I have found that at the Vienna Internet Exchange AS1853 is announcing
>a default address.  I didn't think this was very wise and it may not
>affect much but it looks in error.
>
>>From Looking Glass:
>-------------------
>
>Router: Service.ACO.net 
>Query: bgp 
>Addr: 209.58.48.0 
>
>BGP routing table entry for 0.0.0.0/0, version 530
>Paths: (1 available, best #1)
>  1853
>    193.171.25.81 from 193.171.25.81 (193.171.23.241)
>      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
>
>-Donner
>