[107907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ulevitch)
Wed Sep 17 16:08:08 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:07:50 -0700
From: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <675EC3C8-730F-475B-AB07-AEA3C352C669@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:
>> At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's IP
>> space.
>
> I'm afraid reality disagrees with you - there already are networks doing
> it.
>
> Being big does not guarantee you ability to do Bad Things.
>
I didn't imply that it did.
But the ability to block without causing significant collateral damage
becomes more and more difficult as IPs become less tied to the
organization using them.
That said, you're right that people are doing it now. Consensus from
friends running their apps on EC2 is that you can't expect to be able to
send any email from EC2 and hope for a high deliverability rate.
