Oh I don't know about that. There's been a pile of high profile incidents which have been associated with "BGP optimisers", affecting connectivity to huge chunks of the internet, world-wide. It's not unusual for a single incident to have widespread or even global effect, and what with the Internet playing such an important part of the world's economies, it's hard not to be curious about the overall financial impact of this sort of thing. Nick Ryan Hamel wrote on 16/07/2019 19:10:
Nowhere near the number as an engineer fat fingering a route. There are ISPs that accept routes all the way to /32 or /128, for traffic engineering with ease, and/or RTBH.
Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 11:04 AM To: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers
Job Snijders wrote on 16/07/2019 18:41:
I consider it wholly inappropriate to write-off the countless hours spend dealing with fallout from "BGP optimizers" and the significant financial damages we've sustained as "religious arguments".
it would be interesting to see research into the financial losses experienced by people and organisations across the internet caused by routing outages relating to bgp optimisers.
Nick