[181043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS4788 Telecom Malaysia major route leak?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Sun Jun 14 17:27:43 2015
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:27:35 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Raymond,
They provided a "simple sorry":
"We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the service disruption."
It doesn't get much more simple than that.
-mel beckman
> On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>=
wrote:
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> Hai!
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> Mark, mistakes and oopses happen. No problem at all. I understand that co=
mpletely. There is human faillure and this happenes.=20
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> A simple 'sorry' would have done. Yet their whole message tells 'they did=
ok' In my very limited view they did NOT ok. Did i misread?
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> I am also very much looking how level3 is going to prevent things like th=
is. But out of own experience they will not. We have seen before that they =
implemented filtering based on customer lists. But not a per customer filte=
r. They did this globally. So any l3 customer can announce routes of anothe=
r l3 customer. While this can be changed this outage tells there is certain=
ly room for improvements.=20
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> I hope people will learn from what happened and implement proper filterin=
g. Thats even more important then a message from a operator that didnt even=
understand fully what they caused to the internet globally.=20
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> Thanks,
> Raymond Dijkxhoorn
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>> Op 14 jun. 2015 om 23:04 heeft Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> het vol=
gende geschreven:
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>>> On 14/Jun/15 22:55, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>>> Hai!
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>>> Wouw! This is what they came up with?!=20
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>>> Hopefully Level3 will take appropriate measures. Its amazing. Really.=20
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>>> 'Some internationally routes'=20
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>>> Have they any idea what they did at all?
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>>> Its amazing that with parties like that the internet still works as is =
<tm> ...
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>> I wouldn't be as hard. Stuff happens - and as they said, during a
>> maintenance activity, they boo-boo'ed.
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>> Are Level(3) going to own up and say they should have had filters in
>> place? I certainly hope they do.
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>> But more importantly, are Level(3) going to implement the filters
>> against TM's circuit? Are they going to run around the network looking
>> for any additional customer circuits that need plugging? That's my
>> concern...
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>> Mark.
