[937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Wed Nov 8 18:41:11 1995
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: scharf@vix.com (Jerry Scharf)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 17:23:52 -0600 (CST)
Cc: D.Mills@cs.ucl.ac.uk, michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9511082208.AA13641@gw.home.vix.com> from "Jerry Scharf" at Nov 8, 95 02:08:06 pm
] I think faster routers and bigger pipes will will not solve this problem. As a
] friend likes to say, that is necessary but not sufficient. HWB is right when
] he says that the network design is not coping. He left out tools, operations
and customer support. I think there is some percentage of the service providers
] out there who don't care about the service they provide, but I believe (hope)
] that the mejority really do care.
This whole mess reminds me of some projects I drove by in DC.
Perhaps that is what our current Internet is: Low rent housing w/
mass density and all the problem associated therein.
A wise man has a vision of the Internet much more hierarchaly laid
out. While I have reservations about the Monopoly of certain
companies controlling the top layers of the Internet, I think it
might be the only way to keep these cesspools of intelligence from
corrupting the NAPs and corrupting my connection to anyone single
homed through MAE-East.
The update I just got on the MAE-E /"Sprint" problem seems rather
timely to the discussion.
"
We have hit the point where BGP processing on SprintLink
routers can no longer survive moderate fall-overs.
There is no fix for this, except:
a/ people MUST withdraw as many prefixes as possible
b/ the background route-flap MUST be reduced
This is a global problem, and is not, and will not be
confined to SprintLink.
In short, as has been said on countless mailing-lists for
more than a year: CIDRize or die.
" says sean.
-alan
