ARIN?

Fri Nov 6 01:38:49 UTC 1998

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jason Weisberger wrote:

> > This method, of course, is a bit unfriendly since you're making more
> > announcements than you would be otherwise.
> 
> And if you are using 2 different providers for 2 POPs where the
> announcement is split, one POP is hosed.

Actually, if you mean you lost internal connectivity, each pop would be
half hosed as long as you're announcing the /19 in both.  In that case it
might be best to just announce the specifics and let the traffic from the
providers that do filter on masks longer than /19 be sub-optimal.

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