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From: Sean Donelan (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2007 - 12:45:00 EDT
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
> the space of routing data validation is large, we can explore it at our
> leisure, and we have been for some years. but my point was that it is
> silly to indulge in conjecturbation on the cause of the recent event and
> excoriate l(3), hanaro, or john curran's grandmother until we have heard
> from the folk who have actual data.
If companies thought it was in their self-interest, they might actually
share that actual data. However history has shown over and over again
that companies generally avoid any public discussion about their problems
until they are overwhelmed.
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1327791.php/Yahoo_outage_caused_by_Level3_BGP_issue
If you wait for the companies to reveal the data, you will probably have
a long wait.
WorldCom still hasn't released its official investigative report into why
its national frame networks failed for nearly a week in 1999.
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