[Info-vax] Facebook service outage

[Javier Henderson]

> On Oct 4, 2021, at 8:22 PM, chris via Info-vax <info-vax at info-vax.com> wrote:
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> If you have routing tables that are working, wouldn't it be a good idea
> to verify any new routes before admitted them to the working set tables,
> or perhaps it does that already ?. Some sort of fail over mechanism.
> 
> Doesn't seem very robust as is…

There are some mechanisms to verify authenticity, for example RPKI, RIR and LOAs. The first two allow for some automation, the last one involves some manual verification (which in many cases means glance at it, then allow the prefixes listed on the letter).

As for robustness… since its inception the whole internet has been held together with chewing gum and gaffer’s tape and it continues to amaze me that it works so well.

-jav