[as112-ops] AS112 timeout issues

[William F. Maton Sotomayor]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> On my node I run a web server which redirects to the web site on the
> unicast IP. This is mostly for the benefit of GWFs, but it would be
> useful in this kind of situations as well and I think it would be a
> good practice to do this on more nodes.

I was thinking that in my situation, this wouldn't work because my AS112 
node is reachable only via the CA*Net 4 network (and by extension 
Internet2) ....

Which got me to think:  zlately I'm seeing some traffic coming from my
node trying to make it out to the Internet instead of going back 
(presumably) from where it came via CA*Net 4.  It may not have anything to 
do with Qwest being a sometime (maybe current?) supplier of Internet 2, 
but if high-performance routes are being leaked out somewhere to 
downstream networks, then yes, I could see timeouts happening because my 
Internet filters would break the asymetrical traffic - in my case.  But 
without knowing more about the particular node's connectivity, I'm just 
speculating.

But back on topic, It would benefit the draft (and ultimately operators) 
if we stress the importance of identifying a means to track down who runs 
an AS112 node so we can troubleshoot things.

wfms