[AusNOG] SPAM-MED: Re: Vocus international service outage

[James Spenceley]

Hi Jonathan,

> I’m not overly concerned that there was a problem – shit happens, but when it does, routes should be withdrawn if you can’t handle the traffic they attract.
>  
> 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?

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.

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James

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