Hi,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:11:30AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
???Perhaps Nick is reacting to language like:
"???
This well-known advisory transitive BGP
community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
neighboring IP network or IXP should blackhole a specific IP prefix.
???"???
???which could be cleaned up a bit like:
"???This well-known advisory transitive BGP
community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
neighboring IP network or IXP PARTICIPANT should blackhole a
specific IP prefix."
Well, the intention *is* that "if the IXP supports black-holing, please do".
In implementations like DECIX', the neighbouring IXP participant does not
have to do anything in particular, except "accept the prefix with the
black-hole nexthop".
Maybe more along the lines of
This well-known advisory transitive BGP
community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
neighboring IP network or IXP that has appropriate mechanisms in place
is requested to blackhole a specific IP prefix.
Gert Doering
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