I don't know anything about how BGP works, or even, if BGP is what's currently used on the Internet.
I found it very weird, that two machines in the same LAN (with public IP's), pinging the same target IP address far away, one of them got a response while the other didn't. And it was even more weird that the results would toggle from minute to minute. Suppose there's more than one possible route between my LAN and the destination IP. I know there's no guarantee that any particular route will be chosen - Suppose a single packet leaves Host A, and follows a good route, but another packet leaves Host B and follows a route that has a broken segment. This could possibly explain a single ping succeeding for Host A and failing for Host B. But why would *all* the packets from Host B get routed along the broken path, while all the packets from Host A get routed along the good path? Is this possible or impossible, or somewhere in between? This is ICMP Echo and Response we're talking about. Could the explanation be, simply, some network segment was broken on the internet, and for some reason, all the packets from Host B would get routed over that segment (and fail), and the routes would readjust themselves once every few minutes, making the problem intermittent, and independent of traffic from Host A? _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
