[52220] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Sep 21 05:27:01 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:26:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020921022214.GM30403@buffoon.automagic.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:40:56PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>
> This is all obvious stuff, of course. However, the derived rule of
> thumb "long traceroute bad, short traceroute good" is the kind of
> thing that can induce marketing people to require engineers to
> deploy MPLS, and is hence Evil and Wrong, and Most Not Be Propagated
> Without Extreme Caution.
Feeding any information to clueless people should be done with Extreme
Caution :) A fool with a little knowledge is a lot more dangerous than
just a fool.
How MPLS
