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Although still somewhat primitive, there is a free tool (Java) that tracks current/historical BGP announcements from providers. The tool, RouteTracker, is available at http://www.merit.edu/ipma/tools - Craig at Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:59:27 PDT, you wrote: > That might show up as a flap, visible in the databases that keep and > publish histories of flap information. The IPMA reports at > http://www.merit.edu/ipma/reports/ might help, specifically the > reports on Routing Instability and Routing Problems. There doesn't > seem to be an index into the data that would make a quick lookup based > on a specific prefix easy, though. > > If I recall correctly, there was a raging debate a while back on the > topic of publishing route flap information because the Popular Press > was using such information to rate one provider over another, or to > assert that the whole net was about to drown in a sea of routing > updates. The many lawyers that subscribe to the nanog list asserted > that legal action against the publishers of flap information was a > virtual certainty, and then the thread ... just ... died. -- Craig Labovitz [email protected] Merit Network, Inc. http://www.merit.edu/~labovit 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C. (734) 764-0252 (office) Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785 (734) 647-3185 (fax)
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