Re: where was my white knight....

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:14 PM,  <bmanning () vacation karoshi com> wrote:
>  that was/is kindof orthoginal to the question... would the sidr plan
> for routing security have been a help in this event?  nice to know
> unsecured IPv6 took some of the load when the unsecured IPv4 path
> failed.

if all routing goes boom, would secure routing have saved you?
no... all routing went boom.

>  the answer seems to be NO, it would not have helped and would have actually
> contributed to network instability with large numbers of validation requests
> sent to the sidr/ca nodes.

I think actually it wouldn't have caused more validation requests, the
routers have (in some form of the plan) a cache from their local
cache, they use this for origin validation... there's not a
requirement to refresh up the entire chain. (I think).

-chris

> /bill
>
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:01:04AM -0800, Mike Leber wrote:
> > We saw an increase in IPv6 traffic which correlated time wise with the
> > onset of this IPv4 incident.
> >
> > Happy eyeballs in action, automatically shifting what it could.
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> > On 11/8/11 2:56 AM, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> > > how would a sidr-enabled routing infrastructure have fared in yesterdays
> > > routing circus?
> > >
> > > /bill