[140525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: corporations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Thu May 12 20:32:31 2011
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:31:47 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 5/12/2011 4:03 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> ....
> Large end-user companies generally multihomed by that time, and you
> generally did that by BGP4 at the time (post-1994), and before that
> BGP3, and before that EGP, and before that... well, there was little
> "commercial ISPness" other than NSFNet connectivity and the regional
> networks back then so multihoming was somewhat of a moot point.
>
> Thank you again, UUNet/Alternet and PSI!
>
The management of the large end-user company I worked for could barely
spell Internet at the beginning of 1995. A few connections to the
Internet existed and the lab where I worked was experimenting with a
socks-server. There was a large intranet allocated from the company's
class A space.
