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Re: [v6ops] BGP Identifier

Shane Amante <shane@castlepoint.net> Sat, 15 February 2014 15:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] BGP Identifier
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On Feb 15, 2014, at 7:26 AM, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:
> Op 15 feb. 2014, om 16:13 heeft Shane Amante <shane@castlepoint.net> het volgende geschreven:
>> On Feb 15, 2014, at 12:55 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>> I use this funny thing called DNS. 
>> 
>> And that has what to do with the problem of determining liveness or determining where in the topology is a ROUTER_ID?
> 
> And what does an integer called ROUTER_ID tell you about that?

In my past experience, I have found that -- particularly in new networks that I'm unfamiliar with -- looking at the output of "show (ospf|isis) database extensive", finding a ROUTER_ID that originated the LSA/LSPDU and performing a ping and/or traceroute to it to verify the sanity of where in the topology that ROUTER_ID is located has been helpful in rapidly diagnosing and fixing brokenness.  Yes, I will admit that it is not a panacea (i.e.: it does not help in the case of duplicate ROUTER_ID's), but 99% of the time it's often using that information to figure out where traffic is, or is not, going to.

Look, it's your network, do whatever pleases you.  But, in networks that I've run, having congruency between the ROUTER_ID and a Loopback address has helped more often than not.


> And hey, you can always create records like
>  1.2.3.4.router-id.castlepoint.net IN CNAME router1.somewhere.castlepoint.net

And, when your DNS server is unreachable because you've got a network issue, what then?

-shane

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