[18203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small vent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Labovitz)
Tue Jun 30 11:02:07 1998
From: Craig Labovitz <labovit@merit.edu>
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: labovit@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:59:27 -0700.
<199806281959.MAA06608@center.tech.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:13:39 -0400
Although still somewhat primitive, there is a free tool (Java) that tracks
current/historical BGP announcements from providers. The tool, RouteTracker,
is available at http://www.merit.edu/ipma/tools
- Craig
at Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:59:27 PDT, you wrote:
> That might show up as a flap, visible in the databases that keep and
> publish histories of flap information. The IPMA reports at
> http://www.merit.edu/ipma/reports/ might help, specifically the
> reports on Routing Instability and Routing Problems. There doesn't
> seem to be an index into the data that would make a quick lookup based
> on a specific prefix easy, though.
>
> If I recall correctly, there was a raging debate a while back on the
> topic of publishing route flap information because the Popular Press
> was using such information to rate one provider over another, or to
> assert that the whole net was about to drown in a sea of routing
> updates. The many lawyers that subscribe to the nanog list asserted
> that legal action against the publishers of flap information was a
> virtual certainty, and then the thread ... just ... died.
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