On 23/04/2019 19:54, Sander Steffann wrote:
These are "ghosts", not zombies :-)
Yep, just a new name for the same old thing :)
From my end i'll try harder to mention the multiple names the phenomenon has (my bad that we don't have the alternative name mentioned in the
I had a similar conversation with somebody insisting these things are called 'stuck routes'. 8) And while i agree naming confusion is not good, what i care about most is that we understand this phenomenon better. GRH project ended years ago, and still we see the phenomenon, not only in IPv6 (which was GHR focus), but also IPv4! paper ( https://www.iij-ii.co.jp/en/members/romain/pdf/romain_pam2019.pdf ) ). I've made a reference to the alternative names in the RIPE Labs post. ciao, Emile