[137742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Feb 18 14:35:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <D8CD26287252844898B508C40824D8F4250FD4@AD-EXH02.adhost.lan>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:34:21 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
"Yaoqing\(Joey\) Liu" <joey.liuyq@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost
<mksmith@adhost.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the misfire on my last email. =A0The 206.81.80.0/23 network is =
assigned to the SIX from ARIN. =A0 In general, we don't want
> people to announce that space to the DFZ, so the three providers listed a=
bove are not filtering their announcements properly. =A0It is, as
> others have said, a good idea to announce the exchange block to your cust=
omers, but not out to the DFZ.
why is it a good idea to send this to your customers? the next-hop
info is surely only useful to your local network? done right it's even
only relevant to the IX connected router, right? it seems wholely
unusful to your customers. (to me at least)
