Worth Reading: Ephemeral BGP Leaks

Doug Madory wrote an interesting article (published on APNIC blog) arguing that we shouldn&rsquo;t worry about ephemeral BGP leaks that can be observed only during the BGP path hunting process that follows a route withdrawal. I have to disagree with that. It&rsquo;s never a good idea to ignore a dead canary in the coal mine . While the ephemeral leaks do not impact the end result (after all, the…