Re: Unreachable aroot

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> I've been talking to Cengiz about how to store information on aroot in
> the radb; my own grasp of RPSL isn't good enough to get past some of
> the obvious problems.  He's looking at the drafts now and trying to
> work out if there as at least a way to store who the list of people to
> call would be.

"list of people?"  a user is supposed to call a list?  you're kidding,
right?

given a single place to call, how many users get useful support response
to dns issues today?

> it might be possible to hack the route servers to answer a query like
> "Which ASes offers transit to AS4128 to my AS?"

you mean which were offering transit back when my query failed?

and, btw, internet round trips are seldom symmetric these years.

> Watching it seems to me to require a "reverse skitter"

and a time machine.

randy