[nanog] BGP routes by country

• Subject: [nanog] BGP routes by country
• From: morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:52:18 -0400
• In-reply-to: <CA+4TW[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]> <CA[email protected]> <CA+4TW[email protected]>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:48 PM Chris Knipe <savage at savage.za.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:53 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe asking from the get-go:
>>   "What are you trying to do?"
>>
>> because the question asked is fraught with peril and disaster...
>
>
> Why?  When you have a serious problem with a specific ASN, it's not unreasonable to drop traffic to that entire ASN.

isn't the question though not ASN but 'country' ?

> When you have a serious problem predominantly originating from a certain country, why is it unreasonable to drop traffic to that entire country?

Sure, where is 74.125.0.0/24 originated from? There's not really a
simple answer in bgp for this ;(

> Just because I own an ASN and participate in the world of BGP, doesn't mean I *must* accept everyone's traffic from all over the world.  My network, my rules(1)
>

sure, and you can drop whatever you want, my point was that it's not
really straight forward which ip is which country over time :(

> (1) my as in the ASN whom choose to drop prefixes for an entire ASN and/or country.
>
>

• References:
  • [nanog] BGP routes by country
    • From: michel.py at tsisemi.com (Michel Py)
  • [nanog] BGP routes by country
    • From: morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)
  • [nanog] BGP routes by country
    • From: savage at savage.za.org (Chris Knipe)

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