[12355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Definition of transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Fri Sep 12 16:14:11 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:06:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
Reply-To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970912153148.11388C-100000@netrail.net>
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> If they buy transit, or do not buy transit from UUNet makes no difference.
> You don't see a problem with pointing default at UUNet or any other
> provider?
Ummm...correct me if I am wrong, but isn't transit usually defined as
being given explicit permission to send any and all traffic to the party
from whom transit is being bought? You mean ISP X who buys transit
from NSP Y can't point default at them? Why not? Isn't that what they are
paying for?
Or did you get confused and really mean that NSP X shouldn't be providing
transit over a public exchange point? As Alex pointed out, it was only as
a last resort that transit traffic would flow over the XP.
pbd
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