[129165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Aug 28 05:20:29 2010
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:20:19 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20100828084122.GA29588@mx.ytti.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> i suspect that these folk will test better next time. i sure hope
>>> so.
>> Not sure the researcher can afford to buy a ios xr and may not have
>> access to one !
> Also testing is hard
so is cleaning up the mess when you screw up enough of the internet to
make the international press.
> Maybe we as community could build 'BGPSpec' testing suite, simply
> python (or ruby yay!) script which has been thought at least to puke
> out UPDATEs that have known to break implementations before. Test
> cases being unique files for easy contribution.
a bgp regression suite would not have caught this as it was not a
repeat. but it sure would be useful to implementors.
randy
