[96776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP announce/withdrawal history.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu May 24 10:34:15 2007
In-Reply-To: <465541E8.70001@mt.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:33:20 -0400
To: Forrest W.Christian <fwc@mt.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24-May-2007, at 03:42, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> Earlier today I had an issue where a circuit to one of my two BGP
> connected upstreams went away for an hour or so.
> During this period, I expected BGP to act as expected and migrate
> the traffic to the second circuit with a second provider. This did
> not occur.
When this has happened to me before, I have been suspicious about
whether the upstream to whom the circuit broke was routing my nets
down the dead circuit with static routes that for whatever reason
(layer-2 obfuscation, etc) didn't go away when the link went down.
This hasn't always been the answer, but sometimes it has; in several
cases poking about within RIS (or interactively through a route-views
router while the circuit was down) revealed that upstream in question
was originating routes on my behalf while the circuit was down.
Joe