[84309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Katrina Network Damage Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Sat Sep 10 22:55:49 2005
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: gherbert@kw.retro.com
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:40:30 -0700
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Randy wrote:
>George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
>> Looking at the routing tables you see failures. If a prefix
>> goes away completely and utterly, and is truly unreachable,
>> then anyone trying to see it is going to see an outage.
>
>not if a covering or more specific tells us how to get packets
>to the destination. but perhaps that's what you mean by a
>prefix being unreachable and i am being too picky.
Yes, to clarify, by "completely and utterly" i mean not just
the prefix that you saw drop, but more specific and more general routes
that you may have access to as well.
-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com
