[2734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cengiz Alaettinoglu)
Tue Apr 30 13:15:39 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:12:40 -0700
From: Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz@isi.edu>
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: Ali Marashi <amarashi@interglobe.com>, bmanning@isi.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604292016.NAA27332@lint.cisco.com>
Paul Ferguson (pferguso@cisco.com) on April 29:
> One detractor, to the best of my knowledge, is that the route servers are
> not exactly 'dynamic', meaning that they are updated a couple of times
> during the course of the day to reflect any changes in routing policy.
> Therefore, the possibility for blackhole'ing packets exists.
>
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm remiss. :-)
Yes, I will do that:-)
Route Servers are dynamic, they process upto 6000 routing updates a
minute (see http://compute.merit.edu/stats/mae-east/instability).
Route Servers are reconfigured with up to date policy 6 times a day,
i.e. every four hours. Hence, a brand new route registered in IRR may
not be announced by the route servers to the NSPs whose policies are
prefix based for up to at most 4 hours. I think this is what you are
referring to.
Cengiz
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