Trouble reaching whois.ripe.net and www.ietf.org

[Pekka Savola]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Niels Bakker wrote:
> Perhaps connectivity would be better if other networks didn't filter.

I'd also be better if other networks (except their peers with who they 
may have private arrangements) filtered.

When considering "everyone should accept everything and it'd just 
work" and "more uniform strict filtering would discourage RIPE NCC and 
others from even trying to leak longer prefixes globally 
("stupidity")", I'd personally pick the latter but YMMV.

>  Or they could set no-export but then they'd be bitten by networks 
> that reset all communities inbound.  In the end you're always 
> dependent on other people's networks to deliver the bits to your 
> border routers.

That would be a good first step.  Maybe they just forgot that IOS 
doesn't send even well-known communitites such as NO-EXPORT unless you 
specify "send-community".

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