[68016] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best Common Practice - Listening to local routes from peers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W.Gilmore)
Fri Feb 27 14:09:26 2004
In-Reply-To: <00a701c3fd62$aa6f7780$0200020a@jamesnew>
Cc: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:08:50 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Feb 27, 2004, at 1:51 PM, james wrote:
> : Also, and perhaps more importantly, if the customer's line to his
> : network drops, should the customer be incapable of getting to content
> : hosted on his network?
> Simple. I am not going to break something all the time to counter
> something that might break every once and a while.
> When Nagios pages me that a multihomed customer is down, I will allow
> that address space to enter all my gateways, as a source
> address.
To quote someone on this list: "It doesn't scale."
Additionally, if I'm a customer and my line goes down and it takes you
15 minutes to fix it, I'm not going to be happy about it.
Finally, you "fix" it at the *edge*, that won't break either.
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TTFN,
patrick
