In a message written on Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:22:48PM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > I think actually it wouldn't have caused more validation requests, the > routers have (in some form of the plan) a cache from their local > cache, they use this for origin validation... there's not a > requirement to refresh up the entire chain. (I think).
I kinda think everyone is wrong here, but Chris is closer to accurate.
:P
When a router goes boom, the rest of the routers recalculate around
it. Generally speaking all of the routers will have already had a
route with the same origin, and thus have hopefully cached a lookup
of the origin. However, that lookup might have been done
days/weeks/months ago, in a stable network.
While I'm not familar with the nitty gritty details here, caches
expire for various reasons. The mere act of the route changing
paths, if it moved to a device with a stale cache, would trigger a
new lookup, right?
Basically I would expect any routing change to generate a set of
new lookups proportial to the cache expiration rules.
What am I missing?
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