[2791] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Thu May 2 09:00:05 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 08:57:23 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: epg@merit.edu, paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605020457.AAA00182@home.partan.com> from "Andrew Partan" at May 2, 96 00:57:21 am
> There is one thing that the RS can't do.
>
> If A & B are doing 3rd party peering via the RS, the fact that the
> A/RS peering is up & working and that the B/RS peering is up &
> working unfortunately does not tell you if A & B can exchange
> packets.
>
> If A & B are peering directly, then the fact that the peering is
> up also tells you that they can exchange packets.
>
> Luckily this sort of breakage does not happen very often.
> Unluckily, if it does break, if can be really hard to diagnose.
> --asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
It has happened at least a few times in the past month at MAE-East (islands of
disconnectivity), of course.
Avi
