RE: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
To be absolutely safe, choose 4-5 of the ideas, track all of them and use a composite track object to combine them :) You can find a lot more details (including the oscillating routing problem) here: http://www.nil.com/ipcorner/SmallSiteMultiHoming/ http://wiki.nil.com/Small_site_multihoming G

Re: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Scott Morris
I think that "good" is all relative to what you are most likely to be able to reach from wherever your location happens to be! Google's... Level 3's. Root DNS servers (anycast) Pick something. Scott Curtis Maurand wrote: > > I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org;

Re: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: >> >> I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org; anything but >> Google's DNS. Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste. > > > nefarious? as a route ob

Re: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org;  anything but > Google's DNS.  Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste. nefarious? as a route object to track for selection of a default route? really? I think wat

Re: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Andrey Gordon
Would it be more reasonable to track a root DNS server that is available via anycast?? Something like 192.33.4.12? Not sure how accurate this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver - Andrey Gordon [andrey.gor...@gmail.com]

RE: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Fouant
> -Original Message- > From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:cmaur...@xyonet.com] > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 10:47 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Default route with object tracking > > > I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org;

RE: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Brad Tarratt
Make sure you source your icmp-echos from the address on the interface facing your primary ISP, otherwise your routing table will oscillate continually until your primary ISP comes back up. Here's how I did it with a cable ISP (note my event manager stuff uses no email body to get around the bug i

Re: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Curtis Maurand
I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org; anything but Google's DNS. Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste. On 2/1/2010 10:31 AM, Dan White wrote: On 01/02/10 10:13 -0500, Andrey Gordon wrote: Hi list. I'd like to setup my default routes to the Interwebz to

Re: Default route with object tracking

2010-02-01 Thread Dan White
On 01/02/10 10:13 -0500, Andrey Gordon wrote: Hi list. I'd like to setup my default routes to the Interwebz to be conditional on reachability of something on the Interwebz. I got two different ISPs (no BGP). I'm trying to figure out what would be a reliable object to track? Meaning, it's probabl