[19028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Aug 25 11:35:37 1998
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:19:27 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US, ahp@hilander.com
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?
>
Where do you get your data? It seems to me that the bulk of the largest web
sites with which I am familiar are located in at least two datacenters.
> Alec
>
Owen
Senior Network Engineer
Exodus
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