RE: Long AS Path

2017-06-26 Thread Jerry Cloe
Superstition has no basis in reality (i.e. black cat walks past DC door) Pro-Active is based on experience and knowledge (i.e. when disk space is 90% full for a regularly growing volume, we need to clean or add more before it hits 100%)   I mean this as a rhetorical question as we could talk

SAFNOG-3: Call for Papers Now Out!

2017-06-26 Thread Mark Tinka
Hello all. It gives me great pleasure to announce that the SAFNOG-3 Call for Papers is now out. You may review the CfP and all relevant submission details at the link below: http://safnog.org/papers.html We are working hard to put together an exciting, educational, informative and memor

Netflix fast.com performance

2017-06-26 Thread Amos Rosenboim
Hello, Lately we have been troubleshooting complaints from customers of several ISPs about relatively low results when testing to Netflix's fast.com When we started troubleshooting we notice the following: 1. When the latency to the fast.com test server is ~70ms results are significantly lower t

Re: Long AS Path

2017-06-26 Thread Mel Beckman
Michael, Filtering private ASNs is actually part of the standard. It's intrinsic in the term "private ASN". A private ASN in the public routing table is a clear error, so filtering them is reasonable. Long AS paths are not a clear error.' I'm surprised nobody here who complains about long paths

RE: Long AS Path

2017-06-26 Thread Michael Hare
Couldn't one make the same argument with respect to filtering private ASNs from the global table? Unlike filtering of RFC1918 and the like a private ASN in the path isn't likely to leak RFC1918 like traffic, yet I believe several major ISPs have done just that. This topic was discussed ~1 year

Re: Long AS Path

2017-06-26 Thread Hunter Fuller
This could just be ignorance, but based on this thread, I'm not sure what risk we would be managing, as DFZ router operators, by filtering those paths. They seem silly, but harmless (similar to, for instance, painting a nyan cat on a graph by announcing prefixes at certain times). On Sun, Jun 25,