RFC 7999

BLACKHOLE Community, October 2016

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Status:
INFORMATIONAL
Authors:
T. King
C. Dietzel
J. Snijders
G. Doering
G. Hankins
Stream:
IETF
Source:
grow (ops)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7999

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Abstract

This document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community for destination-based blackholing in IP networks. This well-known advisory transitive BGP community named "BLACKHOLE" allows an origin Autonomous System (AS) to specify that a neighboring network should discard any traffic destined towards the tagged IP prefix.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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