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Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?
From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:55:08 +0300
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 20:00, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:
Not really the point. BGP is designed such that if I take down the link, the prefixes MUST be withdrawn within reasonable time. The self healing aspect of the internet entirely depends on this. Clearly they have some kind of system that does not respect that by design. I am guessing they have something homebrewn going on with their route reflectors?
Add scale and BGP implementations can take a lot of time, hours of it. Best thing you can do is add contractual obligations so people at your provider who agree with you have some ammo. Instant is not on the table, I'm sure that is obvious after that it's less than obvious what is good enough.
It is like a plane. It is impossible to prove or even design a plane that can never fall out of the sky. But now we had a plane that crashed in a very bad way, so that plane (Centurylink) is grounded until they can prove that something like this can not happen again. Which means they need to redesign whatever the hell they have going on here.
Nothing ever works like this, it's naive to think any RCA leads to something fixed so that it can never happen again. Only thing that can be affected is the frequency of an event, removing it is not on the cards. And usually affecting frequency is mostly about belief not something provable. In addition to MTBF, questions should be raised about MTTR, provable MTTR efforts are far more likely to exist than provable MTBF efforts, but if we buy-in to the notion that it never will happen again, because we is good, then no MTTR focus is needed, why fix something that will never happen. What if this outage took 5min to solve? -- ++ytti
Current thread:
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?, (continued)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Warren Kumari (Aug 31)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Tom Beecher (Aug 31)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Warren Kumari (Aug 31)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Tom Beecher (Aug 31)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Ben Cannon (Aug 31)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Bjørn Mork (Aug 31)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Ross Tajvar (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Jared Geiger (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Chris Adams (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Baldur Norddahl (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Saku Ytti (Aug 30)
- RE: Centurylink having a bad morning? Drew Weaver (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Jason Kuehl (Aug 30)
- RE: Centurylink having a bad morning? Drew Weaver (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Joseph Jenkins (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Chris Adams (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Ian Bowers (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Joseph Jenkins (Aug 30)
- Re: Centurylink having a bad morning? Mitchell Lewis (Aug 30)