All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:20:11PM -0900, Richard Machida wrote:
> is there a "best practices" document for IPv4 multicast deployment 
> within in a university environment? I ran into an older document on a 
> Google search that recommended black-holing some group addresses.

If you're talking about which groups to filter at your edge (and possibly at 
internal boundaries) and/or block MSDP SAs for, there's this Internet-Draft:

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-ipv4-mcast-unusable-01.txt

There have also been some lists circulated around this group, and I think the 
latest is here:

http://www.abilene.iu.edu/mccook.html

Bill.