[afnog] Connectivity to www.afrinic.net

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Tue Jul 6 23:25:37 UTC 2010


> So it's up to the operators purchasing Layer 1 capacity from 
> TEAMS and SEACOM to have sufficient bandwidth to ensure that 
> if a cut occurred on either system, whatever is left on the 
> other can handle the load reasonably well.

s/if/when/

The Internet is, among other things, about building a reliable network
out of unreliable components.

All devices break. some days, multiple devices will fail at the same
time.

If you require any device to have 'high availability' you have a bad
design.

BGP never converges.




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