[Starlink] Jamaican Starlink Outages and a hint of shared infrastructure

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 07:37:40AM +0200, Sebastian Moeller via Starlink wrote:
> My understanding is routing mostly follows the path of least cost... and is more complex then BGP makes it look, if two ASs have multiple handover points one still needs to pick one for each flow... and even for a simple route between two AS the forward and reverse path might use different hand-over points... think hot-potato routing.

This is true, but BGP offers sufficient knobs to help in situations
where the "naive" algorithms would fail to find the actual best path
(for some definition of "best" - bandwidth, latency, monetary cost, ...).

It gets more problematic when money or politics get in the way of 
"build good networks" - like, two major transit ISPs refusing to peer
with each other, because both assert the other one should buy from
them...  and customers of both suffer.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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