[141279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Jun 7 05:24:54 2011
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:17:33 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1106070734040.29779@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
in this context, anyone who is a BGP speaker is an ISP.
/bill
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:34:25AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, rucasbrown@hushmail.com wrote:
>
> Please define ISP.
>
> -Hank
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I wouldn't consider myself a network engineer, nor do I have any
> >formal training, but why don't ISPs peer with every other ISP? It
> >would only save EVERYONE money if they did this, no? Only issue I
> >see is with possibly hijacked / malicious AS owners, but that's not
> >very common to do without being caught.
> >
> >All the whole "don't peer with this guy" only makes your customers
> >have worse latencies and paths to other people, making the Internet
> >less healthy.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Rucas
> >
> >PS: sorry if I sent this twice; client lagged a bit.
> >
> >
