Katrina Network Damage Report

Sun Sep 11 02:40:30 UTC 2005

Randy wrote:
>George William Herbert <gherbert at retro.com>
>> Looking at the routing tables you see failures.  If a prefix
>> goes away completely and utterly, and is truly unreachable,
>> then anyone trying to see it is going to see an outage.
>
>not if a covering or more specific tells us how to get packets
>to the destination.  but perhaps that's what you mean by a
>prefix being unreachable and i am being too picky.

Yes, to clarify, by "completely and utterly" i mean not just
the prefix that you saw drop, but more specific and more general routes
that you may have access to as well.

-george william herbert
gherbert at retro.com