[81628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More long AS-sets announced
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Jun 21 12:55:40 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:54:55 +0100
To: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@ripe.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Thank you. You've provided a clean, concise counter to Lorenzo's
> original claim that long AS sets won't trip on IOS bugs.
no problem. you're quite welcome.
> This may be a well-run, very small experiment, but it's experimenting
> with a space that's rarely explored and therefore less likely to have
> encountered the same level of operational testing that horrifying
> garbage leaks have tested. As such, I'm frustrated that the testers
> consider requests to provide more advance notice to be so "obtuse".
could you please give me the command to configure ios to not crash
if given advance notice?
> Why is this operational test supposed to be given freer reign on the
> 'net than our own operations? Alternatively, why can't the test be
> conducted in a lab, with interested operators providing router
> configurations and xOS versions to give the test bed the most realistic
> sample of the 'net, without using the production 'net?
the first announcement of this experiment was months ago.
randy
