On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Route filters in many ISPs are created and validated nightly and
>>> pushed to routers if a filter change is needed.
>>> That isn't usually done in real time. It is almost always done on
>>> COTS hardware (not on the router it's self).
>>
>> agreed, there's some cycle to update filters... the problem is that
>> the source of the filter data is ... horrendous. there's no way to
>> validate what you THINK should be there vs what IS there. there is no
>> way to mechanically keep this data updated, to disqualify bad data and
>> to use quality data.
>>
>> Auto-adding routes because your customer announces you a route is ...
>> not a good plan. auto-adding these to the IRR which is then globally
>> available and not-fixable by the actual origin is also 'bad'.
>>
>> we can do better, rpki provides a path to making that better. rpki is
>> not all of the sidr work though.
>
> actually, at the request of a rather large provider, the rpki data are
> faked into a pseudo-irr instance which those who base filters on irr
> (for example, the verio/ntt) can use.  e.g.
>
>    rair.local:/Users/randy> whois -h whois.rpki.net 198.180.152.0/24
>    route:      198.180.152.0/24
>    descr:      198.180.152.0/24-24
>    origin:     AS4128

oh lookie, someone did the join for me :)
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