[sdnog] using RIPE atlas to check which DNS root your resolver prefers.

Hiba Eltigani higba6 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 09:30:49 SAST 2014


I don't think it is something imposed by SIXP, it is most likely operators'
internal policy to use community for their routing polices but M.Osama can
give more info ;).
On Dec 29, 2014 9:45 AM, "Nishal Goburdhan" <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
wrote:

> On 29 Dec 2014, at 07:36, Tarig Yassin <tariq198487 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > if you want to send me the particular communities that you think that
> the KRT node is originating that needs to be stripped
> >
> > I mean "no-export" community
> >
> > BGP routing table entry information of 192.203.230.0/24:
> >  "Community:no-export"
>
>
> hrm..that's odd!
> i can confirm that this is not something that we are doing  (as i
> explained;  it can't be anyway, since there's a middle ASN between us...)
> so it's got to be something that the L3 IXP operator is doing.
>
> this is also very wrong;  basically, it's imposing a routing policy that
> the route originator (in this case, PCH) did not intend.
> now the ET story makes more sense (also;  this is still bad for your
> customer).   so yes, we definitely need to get this removed.
>
> perhaps m.osama can help explain ?
>
> --n.
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