Re: How to validate blackhole routes? (Was: trouble letting go of IRR)

This is really neat.

The design Junos had supported this day0, so it was really little work
to expose it to users. I think Juniper developers immediately saw when
delivering this feature that it can double as an arbitrary prefix-list
delivery mechanism.

Asking IOS-XR to support this would be quite a big change on their
end. And I suspect the same is true for most vendors. So while I
really like this, I don't think it'll be an option to me, due to
multivendor network.


On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 at 13:10, Martin Tonusoo via NANOG
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> A short follow-up. I noticed that newer Junos releases allow to
> install validation records from a specific RTR session to a designated
> named validation database and, for example, this enables a setup where
> RTBH prefixes are not rejected if the RTR sessions for RTBH routes are
> down.
>
> I modified the script generating the JSON file for RTRTR in a way that
> routers always have "0.0.0.0/0-32  ASN 0" and "::/0-128  ASN 0"
> validation records besides possible /32 v4 and /128 v6 RTBH validation
> records in validation database named "rtbh". The RTBH check in the BGP
> import policies list was moved back before the RPKI check. As an
> example, the RTBH check for v6 can be seen below:
>
> root@vjr-17> show configuration policy-options policy-statement ipt-rtbh-v6
> term reject-blackhole-rpki-invalid {
>     from {
>         family inet6;
>         protocol bgp;
>         community blackhole;
>         validation-database-instance {
>             database-name rtbh;
>             state invalid;
>         }
>     }
>     then {
>         validation-state invalid;
>         reject;
>     }
> }
> term accept-blackhole-rpki-valid {
>     from {
>         family inet6;
>         protocol bgp;
>         community blackhole;
>         validation-database-instance {
>             database-name rtbh;
>             state valid;
>         }
>     }
>     then {
>         local-preference 170;
>         validation-state valid;
>         origin igp;
>         /* requires accept-remote-nexthop */
>         next-hop 100::1;
>         accept;
>     }
> }
> /* fallback if RTBH RTR sessions are down */
> term accept-blackhole-rpki-unknown {
>     from {
>         family inet6;
>         protocol bgp;
>         community blackhole;
>         validation-database-instance {
>             database-name rtbh;
>             state unknown;
>         }
>         route-filter ::/0 prefix-length-range /128-/128;
>     }
>     then {
>         local-preference 170;
>         validation-state unknown;
>         origin igp;
>         next-hop 100::1;
>         accept;
>     }
> }
> term reject-blackhole {
>     from {
>         family inet6;
>         protocol bgp;
>         community blackhole;
>     }
>     then reject;
> }
> then next policy;
>
> root@vjr-17>
>
>
> In summary, if the v6 blackhole prefix does not have a /128 entry in
> "rtbh" validation database, then it will be rejected thanks to
> "::/0-128  ASN 0" VRP. If the validation check is valid or unknown,
> then the /128 blackhole prefix is accepted.
>
>
> I uploaded the configuration files here:
> https://gist.github.com/tonusoo/3e3cc16fe2008fcb9b47aa6e4831c73d
>
>
> Martin
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