[108935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Sun Nov 2 10:20:12 2008
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:14:14 -0800
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@eeph.com>
To: James Jun <james@towardex.com>
In-Reply-To: <00d101c93cf7$d9a46c70$8ced4550$@com>
Cc: 'Larry Sheldon' <LarrySheldon@cox.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: matthew@eeph.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
James Jun wrote:
> As much as we blame Cogent and Sprint for breaking the internet, I also have
> no sympathy for individual single-homed downstream customers on either
> networks. If you are complaining about Sprint<->Cogent depeering and have
> customers demanding for your mission-critical services, then you are just as
> negligent to not have multihomed before all of this happened. ...
Ah yes, I suspect we can get all the network operators here to agree
that any customer of another ISP should buy a second connection "just in
case". Maybe this breakage will turn out to be the best way for everyone
to double their customer base overnight.
But seriously, it shouldn't be necessary to have two connections at
work, two connections at home, two connections for each mobile device,
just to ensure that when large providers stop working together you can
still reach what you need to reach.
Matthew Kaufman
matthew@eeph.com
http://www.matthew.at
