On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Danny McPherson wrote:
> > > > > > Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my > > > experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the > > > ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers. > > > > Level3 do atleast. Most European providers do. > > For customers, though not inter-provider. We use them.. as you say for customers only. Inter-provider we have basic bogon checking plus maximum prefix. Its too unwieldy to build when you have peers exchanging thousands of routes... theres a belief that the peer should be behaving responsibly tho and this is a condition of most bilateral peering contracts. Going back to the original topic on this thread I would expect a deliberate attack on BGP routing to come from a customer not a provider such as Level3, if they are filtering in turn to their customers we have a reasonable amount of sanity checking going on Steve