[87524] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Bogon stupidity... warning... operational post.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Dec 22 14:08:56 2005
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:05:25 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@burtongroup.com>,
"Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
"william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "Robert Boyle" <robert@tellurian.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> On 12/22/05 1:35 PM, "Christopher L. Morrow"=20
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> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
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> >> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Robert Boyle wrote:
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> >>> At 12:56 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
> >>> P.S. 204/8 was not the only problem, there were problems=20
> with 128/8 and
> >>>> 133/8 as well so my apologies to people who may have=20
> noticed problems
> >>>> overnight.
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> >>> 199.128.0.0/9 too.
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> >> Yes, legacy blocks (with large number of smaller=20
> allocations) whenever
> >> datasize during processing exceeded certain amount. The=20
> bad data was
> >> present at 2 of 4 servers for duration of the night but=20
> dns was being
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> > so 50+% of your system was hozed for some long period of=20
> time :( bad.
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> >> changes same time as well, so I don't know how much affect=20
> there was
> >> but apparently considerable; this is the most serious=20
> problem in months.
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> > 'most serious problem in months' ... this has happened in=20
> smaller chunks
> > during the past 'months' ? yikes... is that noted on your=20
> site so users of
> > the 'service' will know what sorts of 'problems' they might be
> > encountering due to their reliance on this 'service'?
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> I wonder how many problems cymru has had in that period? I'm=20
> guess not so
> many...
I mean this in a nice way, really. Look. Smiley. :)
Use a blacklist, pay the price. I'd like to know how many
people actually went to their boss and said "It was that guy
Williams fault even though I control and am responsible for the
network.....!"
-M<
