Re: Great outage of 1997 - Does anyone recall?

[neal rauhauser <nrauhauser () gmail com>]

  OK, here is the expanded, bloggy one. Some time Monday the more
professionally written entry on The Cutting Edge News will be out and I'll
share that one, too.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/22/23440/2313/339/700368


On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Chaim Rieger <chaim.rieger () gmail com>wrote:

> Back on list
>
> I doubt you will get skewered, I promise to read it
>
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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> *From*: neal rauhauser
> *Date*: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:24:08 -0600
> *To*: <chaim.rieger () gmail com>
>
> *Subject*: Re: Great outage of 1997 - Does anyone recall?
>
>  Oh, you guys will skewer me for it :-)  Shall I post the text here so it
> gets vetted first?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:21 AM, <chaim.rieger () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Do post a link when its up.
> >
> >
> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: neal rauhauser <nrauhauser () gmail com>
> >
> > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:11:16
> > To: Patrick W. Gilmore<patrick () ianai net>
> > Cc: NANOG list<nanog () nanog org>
> > Subject: Re: Great outage of 1997 - Does anyone recall?
> >
> >
> >  Well, I hope I'm not butchering the story up too badly - got an 800 word
> > piece going up Monday on The Cutting Edge News and I'm doing something
> > more
> > lengthly and bloggy tonight for DailyKos, whilst hanging around abusing
> > one
> > of our spare 7507s with various new IOS versions.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> > >
> > >  Does anyone have the full story on this?
> > > > > >
> > > > > <http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.html>
> > > >
> > > > bottom line:
> > > >  o do not redistribute bgp into igp
> > > >  o do not redistribute dynamic igp into bgp
> > > >  o filter your peers and customers
> > >
> > > And don't put all your most important infrastructure stuff (e.g. name
> > > server, mail server, shell host, etc.) in the first /24 of your
> > /<shorter>
> > > allocation.
> > >
> > > The biggest problem with 7007 was not that it announced a bunch of
> > > prefixes.  It is that 7007 announced_classful_ prefix (it had been
> > filtered
> > > through RIP, remember?) with AS_PATH of ^7007$.  This means if you had a
> > > 194.1.0.0/16, you saw 194.1.0.0/24 from 7007, which is more specific.
> >  Why
> > > this is bad is left as an exercise to the reader.
> > >
> > > And, of course, the problem persisted after the router in question was
> > > actually unplugged - not powered up or attached to any fibers/cables.
> >  Thank
> > > you Sprint for running beta code. :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > TTFN,
> > > patrick
> >
> >
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