[83648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Announcement Propagation Delay in BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Fri Aug 19 17:43:47 2005
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>, surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:42:32 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Announcement Propagation Delay in BGP
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:33:52 -0500
> 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.
I was hoping to query servers in different parts of the
world: China, somewhere in Africa, places in Europe, etc.
Does anyone have one already written?
Both of these seem to be broken:
http://www.ris.ripe.net/bgplay
http://bgplay.uoregon.edu/bgplay
scott
