[161594] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is multihoming hard? [was: DNS amplification]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Wed Mar 20 15:28:47 2013
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:28:22 -0400
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5149E57D.3080504@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/20/2013 12:36 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> On 3/20/13 6:40 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> I don't know a single ISP that wants to throttle growth by not
>> accepting additional customers, BGP speaking or not. (I do know
>> several that want to throttle growth through not upgrading their
>> links because they have a captive audience they are trying to ransom.
>> But that is neither relevant to this discussion, not controversial -
>> unless you are paid by one of those ISPs....)
>
> Ran across more then one in the Idaho/Oregon/Washington State area that
> told me it was "too hard" for them to do BGP with customers, or my
> favorite, that it would cost over 1k USD for setup, and 500 USD a month
> to do a BGP session with them from our rack in their data center.
>
> Some are either just lazy or incompetent.
>
>
Some just want to justify HUGE blocks of IP space to the RIR too.
Andrew
