[99459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Sep 22 09:39:01 2007
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:23:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709220801030.21065@netcore.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Our perceptions differ -- you seem to think that the having full, unfiltered
> BGP feed protects from these problems. That's not the case. E.g., in the
> TeliaSonera routing problem I sent on the m-l on Sep 6, all prefixes were
> received fine through TSIC, but certain traffic ended up being dropped for
> the duration of about 9 hours.
Has everyone forgotten the "Tier 1 depeerings" of several years ago? i.e.
If you were pointing default at C&W, PSINet, Cogent, or Level3 when they
each had or caused depeering issues, parts of the internet ceased to be
reachable. In such cases, having full routes from multiple providers was
the only way to be automatically protected from such games.
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