[ NNSquad ] BGP Routing Table Size Limit Blamed for Tuesday's Website Outages

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

BGP Routing Table Size Limit Blamed for Tuesday's Website Outages

(DCK): http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/08/13/bgp-routing-table-size-limit-blamed-for-tuesdays-website-outages/

     "The amount of routes TCAMs can store is finite, as a post on The
      IPv4 Depletion Site blog, ran by a group of network and IT
      experts, explains. While workarounds have been developed to deal
      with this limit, not all routing equipment (especially older
      routing equipment) has been upgraded to use them. On Tuesday
      morning, the Internet felt a very distinct tremor that resulted
      from the size of the routing table reaching that magic number of
      512,000 BGP routes. BGP is the protocol used to communicate
      routing information."

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