[19007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Tue Aug 25 08:48:56 1998
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:24:25 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US>
CC: jcurran@bbnplanet.com, patrick@namesecure.com, nanog@merit.edu
Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Actually, if the content provider simply honors MEDs, that should cover most
> of the issue. Then, the long haul is done across the content providers'
> backbone anyway.
Then you get into address aggregation issues that have already been
discussed before.
The way I see it, an intelligent content distribution scheme addresses the
vast majority of these concerns.
So, a question to the large web farms. Why is it that the largest web sites
still seem to be hosted out of a single data center?
Alec
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