[179163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: From Europe to Australia via right way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Thu Apr 2 04:43:38 2015
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:43:25 +0200
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Piotr <piotr.1234@interia.pl>
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piotr.1234@interia.pl (Piotr) wrote:
> What's the reason, there are some telecoms,isp that have paths eastbound,
> southbound but in routing table they prefer longer path via US ?
Come on - you do know that it's called "policy" routing for a reason?
Costs, reserved bw/s for high-rollers, capacity...
(Sometimes sheer stupidity, too)
Elmar.
