[187177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it normal for your provider to withhold BGP peering info until
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Jan 21 17:20:24 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:20:18 +0100
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGVpvh=OACfu_ymoRHLYuEYWZGR62stBct7pxq5n3cS-kw@mail.gmail.com>
(William Herrin's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:13:33 -0500")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* William Herrin:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:26 PM, c b <bz_siege_01@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> We have 4 full-peering providers between two data centers. Our
>> accounting people did some shopping and found that there was
>> a competitor who came in substantially lower this year and
>> leadership decided to swap our most expensive circuit to the new carrier.
>
> That's the first mistake. Internet w/ BGP is not a mass-market
> service. Accounting people have no business searching out highly
> technical custom products and services.
I guess that's why so many customers keep paying for circuits that
have long been shut down. :)
