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The Internet Has Grown Too Big for Its Aging Infrastructure
AndreiGhesi
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Yesterday, the 20,000 customers who use a Lansing Michigan web hosting company called Liquid Web had some big internet problems. The reason: the internet grew too big for the memory chips in the company’s Cisco routers.
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/router_problem/
somebody call kyle
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It's really a shame that the guys at LiquidWeb can't read their own documentation.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/5441-aggregation.html
@Goodhosting
If I recall correctly it was some of their upstreams, not them.
For a second I thought you were talking about the American residential internet infrastructure in a whole.
-i said some stuff here of which was redacted-
How has no one posted about how the BGP routing table exceeding 512K until now? Caused quite a lot of outages yesterday haha.
@Kihi Welcome to LET -i said some stuff here of which was redacted-
The size of the routing table actually impacted numerous ip transit providers too plus more than a few hosting companies.
Level3, cogent, att all had issues.
If anyone is interested in the current CIDR report, here it is:
http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/#General_Status
513370 prefixes now and rising every day.
That's a lot of /24s