[52347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: False-alarm generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (batz)
Thu Sep 26 14:38:44 2002
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:19:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0209261101470.4771-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:
:How does the government know when the Internet is down? They pay
:contractors lots of money to put colored maps on the wall.
Back to a previous thread about this, "down" is relative to
the importance of the resource. If something was affecting
the Internet "globally", then you would need a more
holistic indicator.
I wonder if watching routing tables for route withdrawals or
entire ASN's disappearing would be a useful way to do that.
There are problems with aggregation and null routes, but
it's a start.
If they were able to get route views from multiple sites,
it would be even more useful.
--
batz
