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Re: Katrina Network Damage Report

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Sep 10 10:19:02 2005

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Todd Underwood <todd@renesys.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050910120231.GO10333@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Todd Underwood wrote:
> the general idea is:  take a large peerset sending you full
> routes, keep every update forever, and take a reasonably long (at
> least a month or two) time horizon. calculate a consensus view for
> each prefix as to whether that prefix is reachable by some set of
> those peers.  an outaged prefix is one that used to be reachable that
> not no longer is.  in other words, one that has been withdrawn from
> the full table by some sufficiently large number of peers.

This describes a partioning, not necessarily an outage.


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