Re: NZIX route server filtering (Was: Hurricane Electric joining APE)

Nathan Ward <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:18:34 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.nznog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 24/10/2018, at 10:57 PM, Job Snijders <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 02:26:46AM +0000, Sid Jones wrote:
>> FYI: We will be standing up the first session tomorrow from 10am
>> 
>> rs2.ape.nzix.net
>> 192.203.154.2
>> 2001:7fa:4:c0cb::9a02
> 
> I was reviewing http://www.nzix.net/getstarted.html - is there any
> specific reason these route servers are basic unfiltered?

While this isn’t an answer, there’s some history. I imagine others from Citylink themselves will have info on the current state.

They used to be filtered, the config was generated by a script and the process (quagga or zebra or what not) restarted. Meant that BGP sessions flapped whenever there was a policy update, rather than some sort of soft reload. People didn’t like that very much.

I recall someone was looking at soft reloads, but I don’t know if that got implemented. I imagine current state (i.e. bogons and a prefix limit) is where that got too.

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Nathan Ward

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