[122595] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Wed Feb 17 16:09:19 2010
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:08:40 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4B7C57ED.30005@foobar.org>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:56 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
>=20
> On 17/02/2010 20:51, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> > [Tomas L. Byrnes] We were a small regional ISP with only one main
POP
> at
> > the time.
>=20
> off-net resolvers means that your continued customer satisfaction (and
> therefore your continued reliable cash-flow) is completely dependent
on
> maintaining a good working relationship between your company and the
> company which operates the resolvers. If - for whatever reason - they
> decide to shut off services to your customers, your business will take
> a
> serious impact.
>=20
> Nick
[Tomas L. Byrnes] We had, and maintained, a good relationship, and the
services were reciprocal. The resolvers were only tertiary anyway.
YMMV, it worked for us. Different times.
