[4771] in Privacy_Forum
[ PRIVACY Forum ] BGP Routing Table Size Limit Blamed for Tuesday's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Wed Aug 13 12:10:11 2014
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:37:38 -0700
To: privacy-list@vortex.com
Message-ID: <20140813153738.GB11975@vortex.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Reply-To: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Errors-To: privacy-bounces+privacy-forum=mit.edu@vortex.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
BGP Routing Table Size Limit Blamed for Tuesday's Website Outages
(DCK): http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/08/13/bgp-routing-table-size-limit-blamed-for-tuesdays-website-outages/
"The amount of routes TCAMs can store is finite, as a post on The
IPv4 Depletion Site blog, ran by a group of network and IT
experts, explains. While workarounds have been developed to deal
with this limit, not all routing equipment (especially older
routing equipment) has been upgraded to use them. On Tuesday
morning, the Internet felt a very distinct tremor that resulted
from the size of the routing table reaching that magic number of
512,000 BGP routes. BGP is the protocol used to communicate
routing information."
- - -
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein
Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
