small vent

Mon Jun 29 18:13:39 UTC 1998

Although still somewhat primitive, there is a free tool (Java) that tracks 
current/historical BGP announcements from providers. The tool, RouteTracker, 
is available at http://www.merit.edu/ipma/tools

- Craig

at Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:59:27 PDT, you wrote:
> That might show up as a flap, visible in the databases that keep and
> publish histories of flap information. The IPMA reports at
> http://www.merit.edu/ipma/reports/ might help, specifically the
> reports on Routing Instability and Routing Problems. There doesn't
> seem to be an index into the data that would make a quick lookup based
> on a specific prefix easy, though.
> 
> If I recall correctly, there was a raging debate a while back on the
> topic of publishing route flap information because the Popular Press
> was using such information to rate one provider over another, or to
> assert that the whole net was about to drown in a sea of routing
> updates. The many lawyers that subscribe to the nanog list asserted
> that legal action against the publishers of flap information was a
> virtual certainty, and then the thread ... just ... died.

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