This could just be ignorance, but based on this thread, I'm not sure what risk we would be managing, as DFZ router operators, by filtering those paths. They seem silly, but harmless (similar to, for instance, painting a nyan cat on a graph by announcing prefixes at certain times).
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:32 AM James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 June 2017 at 13:10, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: > > James, > > > > By "experienced by someone else" I mean someone who is not one of your > customers. > > > > The better strategy, I think, is to not filter long paths unless you > have a reason to see their creating a problem. Otherwise you're just > operating on superstition, no? > > > > -mel via cell > > Hi Mel, > > I mean this as a rhetorical question as we could talk until the end of > time about this; what is the difference between operating on > superstition and trying to be pro-active? Both for me fall under the > category of "risk management". > > Cheers, > James. > -- -- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure
