AS1853 announcing default

[Paul Ferguson <ferguson () cisco com>]

Forwarded for a colleague.

- paul

> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 03:52:39 -0400
> From: "Paul G. Donner" <pdonner () cisco com>
> Subject: for NANOG
>
> Paul:
>
> I currently cannot send email to NANOG.  Could you forward this for
> me if you feel it is relevant to NANOG?
>
> I have found that at the Vienna Internet Exchange AS1853 is announcing
> a default address.  I didn't think this was very wise and it may not
> affect much but it looks in error.
>
> > From Looking Glass:
> -------------------
>
> Router: Service.ACO.net 
> Query: bgp 
> Addr: 209.58.48.0 
>
> BGP routing table entry for 0.0.0.0/0, version 530
> Paths: (1 available, best #1)
>  1853
>    193.171.25.81 from 193.171.25.81 (193.171.23.241)
>      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
>
> -Donner