[153172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HE.net BGP origin attribute rewriting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu May 31 16:06:41 2012
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From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:04:54 -0400
To: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2012/5/31 Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> The internet by definition is a network of network so no one entity can
>> keep traffic segregated to their network. Modifying someone else routing
>> advertisements without their consent is just as bad as filtering them in
>> my
>> opinion. Doing so to move traffic into your AS in order to gain an
>> advantage in peering arrangements and make more money off of the end user
>> is just dastardly.
>>
>>
> While this is a nice thought, it's not practical in reality. If you give
> someone a knob, they are going to turn it. Someone will look to take
> advantage of it.
>
> If you pay me, fine. If you don't pay me, I'm not going to allow you to
> potentially cost me significant dollars in infrastructure costs just to
> preserve the notion of free love and peering :)
>
If you consider not mucking with my advertisements and those of my
customers "free love" then I hope you don't work for one of my upstreams.
Likewise, if you consider not hijacking my traffic to drive up revenue as
"cost". Anything to make a buck I suppose. sigh..
