[53577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Simulated disaster exercise? Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Mon Nov 18 15:32:13 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:30:53 +0100
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211161956400.8281-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> In the 1990's the MAEs and Gigaswitches would give us an unscheduled
> failure of a major exchange point on a regular basis, which let us
> demostrate our disaster recovery capabilities. With the improved
> reliability, i.e. the PAIXes haven't had a catastrophic failure, we
> haven't had as many opportunities to demonstrate how well we can handle
> a disaster at those locations.
>
> Without creating an actual disaster, what if all the providers turned
> off
> their BGP sessions with other providers at a PAIX (or Equinix or LINX
> or
> where ever), both through the shared switch and private point-to-point
> links, for an hour. More than likely no one would notice, but then
> we would have some hard data. Individually providers have tested
> parts of
> their own network, but I haven't heard of any coordinated efforts to
> test
> recovery across all the service providers in a particular location.
>
This was more or less done in Sweden two weeks ago. In Stockholm there
are two sites located in Government own locations. We migrated one of
these sites to a new location, and then shut down "one of the halves"
for around 8 hours.
Best regards,
- kurtis -
