On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Eric J Merkel wrote:
> >As for the original poster, how do you know your routes disappear? Are you
> >using some sort of looking glass? What may be happening is that if you
> >prepend enough times to UUNET, the path becomes unattractive, even
> >internally, and all traffic starts to go over sprint. Since the UUNET
> >path is no longer the best path for almost any router, and only the best
> >path is propagated further, it may lead to a disappearance of the uunet
> >path from looking glasses.
>
> Well, the routes with AS701 in them completely vanish from all looking
> glasses. I also did a traceroute from UUNET trace server and it PREFERRED
> Sprint over itself(UUNET) and the traffic incoming dropped to 0 so I am
> fairly certain that the route were completely gone.
That is the point. See my original paragraph above.
/vijay
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