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

On 24/10/2018, at 10:57 PM, Job Snijders wrote:

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 02:26:46AM +0000, Sid Jones wrote:

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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. -- Nathan Ward