[76620] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Fri Dec 17 14:34:12 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:31:06 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Richard Irving
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:20 PM
> To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
> Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Anycast 101
>
>
>
> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> > I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that the percentage
> > of link failures over router failures is much, much higher.
> > - ferg
>
> I'll go out on a limb and suggest...
> you weren't working in BGP during 1995-1998.
>
> :P
>
> (Or RIP in 1992-1993, DVMRP in 1997-1999:)
Link outages are higher than router failures when you
subtract "human error" RFO's.
Overall, "fat fingers" account for the larger percentage
of all outages.
-M<
