[168548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jan 29 14:58:57 2014
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGXo6C4nX-W1R=T5OB2ay-67JBcVUYyqDh0uBz4AqNqu_w@mail.gmail.com>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:34:24 -0500
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> This sort of local-pref default seems to be a common practice with
> backbones. It's very annoying. I wish they'd stop.
Most of their customers would actually be very unhappy if they stopped. This=
local-pref default prevents many many problems and in the vast majority of c=
ases provides the desired result. Yes, it's important to know what is going o=
n and to be able to ask your providers to make necessary changes in circumst=
ances where this is not optimal (either via community or ticket), but I assu=
re you that if every backbone turned this off suddenly, most internet users w=
ould be very !HAPPY.
Owen
