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Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Mon Jun 6 18:52:39 2011

In-Reply-To: <20110606223941.GA22728@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:51:45 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:39 PM,  <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>
> its not always about money. =A0sometimes its reputation.

And also reasonably hygene, and both individual and community self defense.

There are some less competent network operators out there (and even
good ones have bad days).  And some of the people out there speaking
BGP want to do really malign things with internet traffic, like hijack
and snoop, inject spam, sometimes injecting spam by hijacking someone
else's net temporarily, create malware sites, hack others, etc.


--=20
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com


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