[116017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Thu Jul 16 09:48:42 2009
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:48:32 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:45:24AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Keep in mind I am basing this 'idea' off of fixed orbit's data
> which can sometimes be a bit out of date, etc.
Understatement.
[snip]
> I realize that we can use communities, and prepends to control
> the inbound flow, I am just speaking from a purely natural standpoint.
Since your inbound is someone else's outbound, presuming any kind
of "natural flow" without accounting for the remote end's sending
policies is unreasonable.
Cheers,
Joe
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