Unwanted Traffic Removal Service (UTRS)

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Wed Oct 8 15:19:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> wrote:
> Just like chicory, personally I don't like it. Yes, Cymru has build a
> reputation as clearing house for redistribution of security related
> information. But... (aside from any local safety net filter), it's quite
> a leap to allow a single entity to inject blackholes for any prefix.

Hi Job,

We already do that on the /24 level... it's called "BGP" and we all
have fun when a service provider in one of the 'Stans injects a route
overriding Youtube.

How could John's system do worse?

Regards,
Bill Herrin




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