On 29/Sep/15 16:26, Rampley Jr, Jim F wrote:
Hi Seth, which market was this occurring? Was this already removed? I'm not seeing it this morning. I would like to figure out what went wrong here. We shouldn't be nailing up any static configuration to have caused a situation like this.
You'd be surprised how often this happens, especially on the back of a conference rocking into a city/country and the local provider having minimal BGP experience. Once the conference is done, folk leave, and the provider forgets about things - which is not a problem since the conference would have come with its own IP address space. The issue goes unnoticed for 12x months when the conference is trying to route their usual block in some other city/country, and things just seem "strange". Someone remembers the previous year's event, calls up the previous provider, and finds out that the tech. who worked the activation has since left. It's not easy... Many other situations closer to home (i.e., paying customers) where things like this happen, especially if the customer has IP address space but does not do BGP (until they want to or leave to the competition). Blackholing operations that go wrong that folk forget about as well, not to mention other networks that cut themselves off by using public IP address space for their enterprise network. It's not easy at all... Mark.