[140816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: corporations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Fri May 20 10:23:33 2011
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DCC7BF3.9070202@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:23:15 -0400
To: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 12, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Roy wrote:
> 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!
> >
>=20
> 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.
But it wasn't long before SOCKS (and proxy in non-US) servers were =
deployed throughout the entire company, connected behind an ISP owned =
and operated by that company. The connectivity was typically static =
routing to/from the POP in the same building IIRC.=20
