Re: Better description of what happened

[Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com>]

On 10/5/21 5:51 AM, scott wrote:
> On 10/5/21 8:39 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > This bit posted by Randy might get lost in the other thread, but it 
> > appears that their DNS withdraws BGP routes for prefixes that they 
> > can't reach or are flaky it seems. Apparently that goes for the 
> > prefixes that the name servers are on too. This caused internal 
> > outages too as it seems they use their front facing DNS just like 
> > everybody else.
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> > Sounds like they might consider having at least one split horizon 
> > server internally. Lots of fodder here.

even a POTS line connected to a modem connected to a serial port on a 
workstation in the data enter so that you can talk to whatever you need 
to talk to.  I would go so far as to have other outgoing serial 
connections to routers from that workstation. It's ugly, but it provides 
remote out of band disaster management.  Just sayin'

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