[84714] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [afnog] ARIN to allocate from 74/8 & 75/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Wed Sep 21 08:38:40 2005
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:38:11 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Todd Underwood" <todd@renesys.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>=20
> > i.e. is there a pingable address in each, as has been
> > discussed here just a few times?
>=20
> ping is ok, but routing table entry existence seems better. ping can
> fail for lots of reasons and what we're really testing is routing, not
> icmp end-to-end, right?
There's a difference between reachability
and routability. The lack of a routing table entry=20
indicates a different problem which implicates routing and=20
reachability problems. I don't agree that reachability is
implied with routability.
> if it's useful, i'd be happy to report what percentage of my peers
> have/don't have routes to these prefixes.
I'd be interested.=20
Best,
-M<=20
