google ipv6 routes via cogent

Niels Bakker niels=nanog at bakker.net
Fri Mar 3 11:56:01 UTC 2017


* howard at leadmon.net (Howard Leadmon) [Fri 03 Mar 2017, 01:06 CET]:
>On 3/2/2017 2:57 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>>You should ask for full routes from all your providers + a default.
>
>  If you taking full routes from everyone, why would you need a
>default?   If they don't show a route for it, they probably can't reach
>it.   I don't think I have run with a default route external for many
>years, and so far it hasn't bit me yet..

As I explained in the rest of my email that you conveniently didn't 
quote, it's so that you can selectively import routes from all your 
providers in situations where your router cannot handle a full table.


	-- Niels.



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