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Would IPv6 help reducing the impact or even completely avoid this type of incident? iirc IPv4's "bloated" routing tables are getting harder to maintain.
by nnx 12y ago
Would IPv6 help reducing the impact or even completely avoid this type of incident?
iirc IPv4's "bloated" routing tables are getting harder to maintain.
- jbert 12y agoNo, aiui, the trust model is the same. If a peer announces routes to you, all you can do is: - throw away "martians" (routes to known-reserved/bad parts of IP space) - throw away stuff you know they shouldn't be announcing (your stuff basically) other than that, I think you have to trust them when they say that they have a magic route to IP 16.0.0.1 which is shorter than any other you know about. (Since it might be true).
- boydjd 12y agoNo.
- rblatz 12y agoMy understanding is that it would not do anything to help prevent deliberate attacks on BGP. But I do think it may help limit the damage of accidental BGP misconfigurations since the routing tables are less confusing and crowded.