CloudFlare IPv6 BGP announcements - WTF guys?

[Oliver]

On Saturday 14 July 2012 22:45:34 Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Akamai is (at least in RIPE space) now having the same problem. They
> used to announce the /32 from somewhere and additional /48s, so at least
> the traffic went somewhere. They dropped the /32 now, so everyone
> filtering strict has no route to Akamai anymore.
> 
> FWIW, I'm talking about 2a02:26f0::/32. There are Akamai clusters in ISP
> PA space that still work of course.
> 
> Bernhard

The whole thing is daft; even if you've got multiple upstreams, there's still 
*nothing* preventing you from exposing only your /32 to the rest of the 
internet and tagging more specifics with NO_EXPORT to each of your upstreams.

The only time that doesn't solve the issue is when you specifically want to 
force a given prefix to a particular point through a particular upstream; 
although in that case, go create a route object or arrange something with your 
transit providers.

If your modus operandi is to pollute the routing tables, you deserve all the 
unreachability you get.

Regards,
Oliver