[41149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Thu Aug 30 05:19:26 2001
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:18:51 +0100
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Reply-To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>,
"Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
Cc: cmartin@gnilink.net, nanog@merit.edu,
Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
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--On Thursday, 30 August, 2001 2:20 AM -0400 Charles Sprickman
<spork@inch.com> wrote:
> Can a small ISP in Florida still clobber the whole internet? Learning
> experiences, that's all...
I'm betting yes. Cluelessness appears to be
growing faster than the routing table.
Given about once a year we have a small
(or not so small) ISP somewhere do it, I don't see
why the situation should change. Of course, they'll
have to pick a different and more original flavour
of misconfiguration / stupidity / vendor bug this
time.
--
Alex Bligh
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