[outages] Optus/Akamai

[Jon Lewis]

In my experience with such things, it's not a matter of "some routes will 
be dropped", but "traffic to certain destinations will blackhole unless 
there's a covering route in FIB."

On Thu, 9 Nov 2023, Ross Tajvar via Outages wrote:

> Surely it's better to drop some routes than to drop the whole session.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 5:26 PM Rubens Kuhl via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>       On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:22 PM Job Snijders via Outages
>       <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>       >
>       > On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 23:18, Steve Meuse via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>       >>
>       >> Are people using max-prefix for iBGP sessions?
>       >>
>       >> That seems.....unwise.
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > Yes, I find it hard to imagine what risks would be mitigated by applying max-prefix limits to IBGP sessions.
>
>       TCAM limits, perhaps ?
> 
>
>       Rubens
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