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

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Gert,


> On 25. Jun 2024, at 08:54, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Indeed, however these customers are part of the problem in a sense, as if customers would simply drop these two like a hot potato for exactly that reason, I am sure these two might be willing to come together over a cake perhaps ( h++ps://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt8eb3cdfc1fce5194/blt87f5367a512efb22/664b33f657aac63927f84866/Hurricane-Cake.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale )?




Sorry for fudging the URL, but my mail service helpfully marks outgoing posts with (too many?) URLs as spam and the list server will reject my posts...

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