<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Jonathan,</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’m not overly concerned that there was a problem – shit happens, but when it does, routes should be withdrawn if you can’t handle the traffic they attract.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Perhaps Vocus could consider a BGP community that would allow us to “subscribe” to having the withdrawal routes when a fault condition or maintenance is performed to ensure that there’s little/no risk of interruption when something like this happens?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In any normal outage situation if we can't pass the traffic the routes wouldn't be presented, this was a very unusual case, the bug on the router caused routes to still be presented but traffic not be passed. This is not a normal outage situation and specific to the bug on the cisco boxes.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>James</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>