[51998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Wed Sep 11 15:12:55 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:00:40 +0200
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: tim.thorne@btinternet.com (Tim Thorne)
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <3d7d05ef.6363490@news.alt.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On fredag, sep 6, 2002, at 21:57 Europe/Stockholm, Tim Thorne wrote:
> OK, what if 60 Hudson, 25 Broadway, LinX and AmsIX were all put out of
> commission?
To some extent - nothing for the above...if design right. The major
networks should have designed their networks to route around this. If
not - they have done a poor job. For others, the exchange points should
be a way merely to off-load their transit connections.
However - there is a point in what you are saying, from a national
point of view - the exchange points should independently take care of
traffic in the case a nation is isolated. But I don't think any of the
above are designed for that in the first place...
- kurtis -
