The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane Electric - and how to solve it

Mon Jan 25 22:28:12 UTC 2016

> From mark.tinka at seacom.mu  Mon Jan 25 19:56:46 2016
> > On 25/Jan/16 21:28, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> > It is but nobody worries about that, we trust route servers at IX
> > carrying way more traffic than most of these access circuits.
> 
> Yes, but if those go belly-up, you have another exchange point to fall
> back to, a bi-lateral peering session, or an upstream provider. Or all
> three.

Doesn't matter, if traffic is blackholed at an ix then it
won't be failing over to another one. Same effect

> A "critical" device falling over in my network is far worse prospect to
> experience.

The general case doesn't care about your network, it assumes you'd
engineer that appropriately for the criticality and do something
different/better if you need to.

brandon