Yahoo outage summary
Patrick W. Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Mon Jul 9 17:42:45 UTC 2007
On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:19 AM, jared mauch wrote:
> The simple truth is that prefix lists ARE hard to manage. There are
> a lot of folks that have complex relationships or don't see why
> they should register their routes. Some people lack tools and
> automation to make it work or to manage their networks. It would be
> nice to see everyone filter routes, including those from even
> transit and large peers. I don't think we will be able to ignore
> this forever. I also do not see the status quo changing soon either.
I'm not sure we can't ignore it forever.
The telephone network has been around for a lot longer than the 'Net,
has way, way, way more connections, and there are corners of it which
are managed even worse than the inter-web.
Like Sean said, cost/benefit. If the cost of avoiding a 1 day outage
per year is the same as a 5 day outage, management will not fix it.
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TTFN,
patrick
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