Better description of what happened

Wed Oct 6 14:41:07 UTC 2021

On 10/5/21 5:51 AM, scott wrote:
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>> This bit posted by Randy might get lost in the other thread, but it 
>> appears that their DNS withdraws BGP routes for prefixes that they 
>> can't reach or are flaky it seems. Apparently that goes for the 
>> prefixes that the name servers are on too. This caused internal 
>> outages too as it seems they use their front facing DNS just like 
>> everybody else.
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>> Sounds like they might consider having at least one split horizon 
>> server internally. Lots of fodder here.
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even a POTS line connected to a modem connected to a serial port on a 
workstation in the data enter so that you can talk to whatever you need 
to talk to.  I would go so far as to have other outgoing serial 
connections to routers from that workstation. It's ugly, but it provides 
remote out of band disaster management.  Just sayin'

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