[83646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Announcement Propagation Delay in BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Fri Aug 19 17:35:32 2005
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:33:52 -0500
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <43063f77.307.19de.407834039@mauigateway.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Scott Weeks wrote:
> I am going to be announcing two new prefixs into BGP soon
> and the netgeek in me is very curious as to the length of
> time it takes to show up in other parts of the world that're
> logically far from Hawaii. Instead of going to
> www.traceroute.org and refreshing repeatedly, I thought
> folks here might've created a tool to do just that. Or,
> perhaps, someone else has stats on a test they ran in the
> past.
Non-scientific test, but I've seen new prefixes appear at the Oregon-IX
route server in <20 seconds (we're only in Texas), and reach a modestly
steady state in <90 seconds. I've seen adjustments (prepending, etc.)
appear in 45+ seconds, and withdraws in probably the same time.
pt
