This is sure to create a number of "big pipe orphans". I wonder if this will create a surge in multihoming attempts? How could you discourage that now? Unlike the recent DSL disasters, you can't just say "buy a T1 if you want reliable service". Even if you are not a PSI customer, it would be foolish not to multihome now. Did C&W consider the route table effects of this new routing policy? KL "Patrick W. Gilmore" wrote:
At 05:44 PM 6/4/2001 -0400, Travis Pugh wrote:
route-views.oregon-ix.net concurs:
route-views.oregon-ix.net>sh ip bgp regex ^3561_174_
route-views.oregon-ix.net>
Yes, but if one or the other has backup peering, it would not look like that. It would look like _3561_.*_174_ or _174_.*_3561_ - prolly the former since AS3561 gives route-views a feed, but AS714 does not.
Looking in route-views for those two patterns, I see only a few routes under 3561.*_174_, probably leakage. There are no routes of the form _174_.*_3561_.
Since route-views does have a feed from AS3561, I would say it is official. Cable and Wireless cannot reach PSI.net.
Congratulations ladies & gentlemen. The first intentional, prolonged, significant (for some values of "significant" :) outage on the Internet. And we were all here to see it....
Wow, in the same week MAE-East dies. Sad time for the 'Net. :((
-travis
-- TTFN, patrick