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Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers

  • From: Cengiz Alaettinoglu
  • Date: Tue Apr 30 13:12:50 1996
  • Posted-date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:12:40 -0700

Paul Ferguson (pferguso@cisco.com) on April 29:
> One detractor, to the best of my knowledge, is that the route servers are
> not exactly 'dynamic', meaning that they are updated a couple of times
> during the course of the day to reflect any changes in routing policy.
> Therefore, the possibility for blackhole'ing packets exists.
> 
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm remiss.  :-)

Yes, I will do that:-)

Route Servers are dynamic, they process upto 6000 routing updates a
minute (see http://compute.merit.edu/stats/mae-east/instability).

Route Servers are reconfigured with up to date policy 6 times a day,
i.e. every four hours. Hence, a brand new route registered in IRR may
not be announced by the route servers to the NSPs whose policies are
prefix based for up to at most 4 hours. I think this is what you are
referring to.

Cengiz

-- 
Cengiz Alaettinoglu           Information Sciences Institute
(310) 822-1511                University of Southern California
http://www.isi.edu/~cengiz




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