[137758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Feb 18 16:39:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <D8CD26287252844898B508C40824D8F4251581@AD-EXH02.adhost.lan>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:37:05 -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 4:24 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost
<mksmith@adhost.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: christopher.morrow@gmail.com
>> 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)
>
> I was thinking about what Leo said about tools that test each hop through=
a path. =A0At least my downstream customers will be able to test through t=
he SIX connection if I announce the /23 to them.
>
hopefully the path to the IXP prefix is the same as to the item they
are testing failure of? :)
