Announcement Propagation Delay in BGP

Thu Aug 25 00:51:33 UTC 2005

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From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer at mauigateway.com>
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Announcement  Propagation Delay in BGP
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:22:15 -1000
> I am going to be announcing two new prefixs into BGP soon
> and the netgeek in me is very curious as to the length of
> time it takes to show up in other parts of the world
> that're logically far from Hawaii.  Instead of going to
> www.traceroute.org and refreshing repeatedly, I thought
> folks here might've created a tool to do just that.  Or,
> perhaps, someone else has stats on a test they ran in the
> past.  
> 
> Anyone got any tools or suggestions on how to measure this
> just for fun and not as a scientific study?  I plan to
> read the beacon paper

Took about 100 seconds.  Not a scientific measurement.

scott