where was my white knight....

Tue Nov 8 21:25:54 UTC 2011

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 18:14, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>>  the answer seems to be NO, it would not have helped and would have actually
>> contributed to network instability with large numbers of validation requests
>> sent to the sidr/ca nodes...
>
> i'm curious about sidr cold bootup, specifically when you are attempting to
> validate prefixes from an rpki CA or cache to which you do not necessarily
> have network connectivity because your igp is not yet fully up.  The
> phrases "layering violation" and "chicken and egg" come to mind.

'lazy validation' - prefer to get at least somewhat converged, then validate.

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