[outages] Optus/Akamai

[Owen DeLong]

Those are actually one and the same if you think about it, but yes, you are correct… To make matters worse, it’s not particularly deterministic which routes are dropped.

However, I’ll make the argument that losing some random assortment of destinations is almost always going to be better than losing your entire ability to control your peering routers.

YMMV.

Owen


> On Nov 14, 2023, at 11:37, Jon Lewis via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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