Re: Yahoo outage summary

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:19 AM, jared mauch wrote:

> The simple truth is that prefix lists ARE hard to manage. There are  
> a lot of folks that have complex relationships or don't see why  
> they should register their routes. Some people lack tools and  
> automation to make it work or to manage their networks. It would be  
> nice to see everyone filter routes, including those from even  
> transit and large peers. I don't think we will be able to ignore  
> this forever. I also do not see the status quo changing soon either.

I'm not sure we can't ignore it forever.

The telephone network has been around for a lot longer than the 'Net,  
has way, way, way more connections, and there are corners of it which  
are managed even worse than the inter-web.

Like Sean said, cost/benefit.  If the cost of avoiding a 1 day outage  
per year is the same as a 5 day outage, management will not fix it.

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TTFN,
patrick