[97815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo outage summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Jul 9 13:44:00 2007
In-Reply-To: <32F85176-2450-43E6-9C20-377462C7EE67@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:42:45 -0400
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:19 AM, jared mauch wrote:
> The simple truth is that prefix lists ARE hard to manage. There are
> a lot of folks that have complex relationships or don't see why
> they should register their routes. Some people lack tools and
> automation to make it work or to manage their networks. It would be
> nice to see everyone filter routes, including those from even
> transit and large peers. I don't think we will be able to ignore
> this forever. I also do not see the status quo changing soon either.
I'm not sure we can't ignore it forever.
The telephone network has been around for a lot longer than the 'Net,
has way, way, way more connections, and there are corners of it which
are managed even worse than the inter-web.
Like Sean said, cost/benefit. If the cost of avoiding a 1 day outage
per year is the same as a 5 day outage, management will not fix it.
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TTFN,
patrick
