Re: Can route-views be trusted?

nanog@lists.nanog.org (Hank Nussbacher via NANOG) wrote:

We had F5 announce a /24 on our behalf.  We then asked F5 to withdraw that /24.  Route-views showed the /24 still being announced via an F5 path.  F5 claims that route-views is incorrect and the route had been properly withdrawn.

Local withdrawal does not result in *quick* global withdrawal. There's so much dampening involved, that you can get lucky, but that's not a given. If you still see the prefix two hours later, that's when I'd start thinking deeper about the heat death of the universe. Until then, it is what it is. El "correct me if I'm wrong, I just never believed in instant change, just because *I* made a change" mar.