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Re: Use of Default in the DFZ: banned in philly, see it now on the

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Jun 24 16:18:37 2009

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:01 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A427DFA.30204@templin.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Pete Templin wrote:
> 
> Skimming the paper turns up a key sentence, "Stub networks, on the other 
> hand, do not forward packets for other networks."  What part of that led 
> you to think that stub networks forward packets for 1-4 downstream ASNs?

That's where the confusion sets in, and Randy even stated that the UCLA 
data is suspect; partially because it considers a stub to be 4 or less 
downstream ASNs. I think Randy's data would be better reflected without 
the UCLA information which just confuses it.


Jack


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