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Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes

  • From: Simon Lockhart
  • Date: Mon Aug 05 18:59:26 2002 
On Mon Aug 05, 2002 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> seems a hack. what if they announce a /24 from your space and they mostly have
> shorter path lengths? you still lose...

Advertise the /24 yourself, and 2 * /25, and hope. I had to do this recently, 
due to a certain ISP in .au advertising a /24 from our space, and it actually 
worked remarkably well. To their credit, the ISP were also pretty responsive
about fixing the problem.

Simon
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