[18682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Thu Aug 13 20:52:07 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:37:13 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
Cc: John Butler <fez@mindspring.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980813111012.32728H-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>; from Jon Lewis on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 11:18:14AM -0400
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, John Butler wrote:
>
> > This statement is deluded to say the least. BBN peers with most other
> > major backbone providers, and they have one of the fastest, most
> > reliable networks in the world. Say Ms. Hancock ends up buying transit
> > from Digex or UUnet. Under most current hot-potato routing schemes, that
> > carrier will drop the packet at the closest BBN peering point, and the
>
> But...do Above.net and Exodus.net actually buy transit from anyone, or are
> they each large enough that they just connect to the various NAPs and have
> free peering with all the other major networks? If they don't buy transit
> from any other backbone, and lose peering with BBN, what path will packets
> between BBN and either of the two above take?
None.
And when BBN customers call Exodus customers to ask why they can't get
through, I hope Exodus has informed them (before that happens) why and what
they should do with their BBN contracts.
(hint: paper shredders make wonderful confetti).
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