[ixpmanager] BIRD Config Gen: Prefixes Not Being Exported; Strange Errors

Diarmuid O Briain diarmuid at obriain.com
Tue Feb 13 14:52:12 GMT 2018


Kyle,

Perhaps it is an issue that AFRINIC could take up.

regards,

Diarmuid

--

*Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God.*



On 13 February 2018 at 14:53, Kyle Spencer <kyle at stormzero.com> wrote:

> Yeah; well, I spend a lot of time training people how to turn it off
> because it tends to breaks IXPs in Africa where many networks don't have
> IRR objects configured and/or IXP admins are not aware of which IRRDBs
> apply when they do.
>
> It seems to me like a feature that should be enabled by choice when an IXP
> is ready to make that jump, rather than a standard which should be enabled
> by default.
>
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> On 13 Feb 2018 2:37 p.m., "Barry O'Donovan" <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Kyle Spencer wrote:
> > Perhaps IRRDB filtering should be off by default, regardless of best
> > practice :)
>
> Definitely not.
>
> As previously stated, we ship secure by default. We don't always get it
> right but we don't purposely get it wrong.
>
> The documentation for all of this is very thorough.
>
>  - Barry
>
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