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Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Aug 29 03:28:44 2010
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:28:34 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008290919550.8562@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> This was *silent* error/corruption. I'm not sure I prefer to have
> silent problems instead of tearing down the session which is
> definitely noticable.
i call the silent fix "do-gooder software." it means to do good. when
it works, nobody notices or says thanks. when it fails, there is hell
to pay.
randy
