Does anyone know if AT&T (the old one, AS7018) has customer trigged
blackhole routing? I looked in the copy of the BGP policy I have
from 04/2005, and see nothing about it, and cannot find the updated
online version.
Off-list replies welcome.
I really doubt it. Last time I talked to a couple of AT&T sales engineers, they didn't even support selective prepending based on communities. It actually took a while to find one the concept could be explained to.
BTW...
http://www.nanog.org/aup.html
Acceptable Use Policy
...
7. Postings to the list must be made using real, identifiable names and addresses, rather than aliases.
A Satisfied Mind <anti.confidentiality.notices@gmail.com> doesn't appear to qualify.
mci/vzb sales folks as a whole can't explain it either, but we offer it...
I'd suspect if the original poster would have used a more legittimate
email address they might have recieved a directed note back from one of
the several ATT nanog-readers...
(note, of course there are always sales folks that CAN explain these
things, but in general they end up asking a tech person inside their
company... or we hope they do)
-Chris