[as112-ops] AS112 evolution (responses to multiple recent messages)

[William F. Maton]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Paul Vixie wrote:

>> Could we make an empty zone (empty.as112.net) and use some
>> BNAME/CNAME/DNAME tricks to point any arbitrary blackholeables there?
>
> that's sort of what metazones do, which is why i sent the pointer to that
> paper.  if you want to define similar technology just for AS112 feel free.
> i'm happy to send the perl implementation of metazones to anyone who wants
> to play with it or work on it or release it.

Cool, it would be interesting to have a look at that, as it would make it 
easier to manage stealth slaves in an anycast campus and WAN environment 
as well.

However, I can see where this isn't going to work very well since most 
AS112 nodes (but not all) seem to be isolated from the general Internet, 
mostly orbiting IXs.  That is of course, we decide to compell AS112 
operators to expose them via unique unicast addressing - pretty hard to do 
with my node - and I suspect the reason why we aren't seeing more public 
stats out there.

wfms