[2138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NET99 sabotages IGC's routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Sun Mar 17 14:50:48 1996
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: stimpson@stimpson.igc.net (Joel Katz)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 14:47:25 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960315222120.3730A-100000@stimpson.igc.net> from "Joel Katz" at Mar 15, 96 10:21:55 pm
> For some reason (we strongly
> suspect a configuration error at NET99) our traffic failed to reroute
> over our MCI T1 for several hours. (They have a habit of broadcasting
> static routes to route around outages, thus completely screwing their
> multi-homed customers.)
I can confirm that this isn't the first time that this has happened.
Hopefully reports such as this will make ISPs aware that static routes
aren't a good solution for dual homed customers.
I also recommend bringing as much as possible of your routing announcements
in-house (ie, run BGP).
