23 May
2000
23 May
'00
2:02 p.m.
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Vadim Antonov wrote:
This is not only practical, but, in fact, the only sane way to do things. Dropping BGP session causes withdrawal of hundreds or thousands of acceptable routes. When the BGP session is reestablished, these routes will be acquired again, causing a wave of announcements. When the invalid route shows up, the cycle is repeated.
What a perfect way to kill the Internet :)
This is what BGP dampening is for. Dropping a few prefixes here and there is a good way to make operational debugging of a network of any size, hell. With a NOTIFY and a drop, there is a definite positive feedback that something is majorly wrong and allows people to open top level cases with vendors. /vijay