[2518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz)
Mon Apr 8 15:55:03 1996
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:44:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz" <stimpson@stimpson.igc.net>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: bmanning@isi.edu, hcb@clark.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604081525.LAA18147@netaxs.com>
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> Now, many 2nd level providers that *could* operate default-free choose
> not to. Even if you have three or more sets of 30k+ routes each, it
> takes balls to risk dropping packets that your customers want you to
> deliver just so that you can have the packet be dropped at your router
> instead of at your (possibly backup) transit provider's router.
>
> Avi
Can't anyone who takes full routes from any tier 1 provider
operate without a default route? And isn't it a reasonable assumption
that if you don't have a route somewhere, odds are they don't have a
route to you (assuming you do your own BGP routing) and so a default
route is mostly pointless anyway?
What am I missing?
DS
