BLACKHOLE community RFC7999

Job Snijders job at instituut.net
Fri Oct 21 12:32:53 CEST 2016


On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:24:25AM +0000, Thomas King wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > We could add option 'interpret blackhole' (disabled by default),
> > which could be used to enable RFC 7999 behavior.
> 
> I would prefer to have a 'interpret blackhole' switch because it makes
> it really easy to use.

how will the software know whether the bgp neighbor is authorised to
advertise and blackhole a prefix?

to me an important part of the RFC is that the operator is still
obligated to do his/her work and create filters, policy, etc.

Kind regards,

Job


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