[2520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Haney)
Mon Apr 8 17:20:15 1996
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:11:43 -0500
To: "David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz" <stimpson@stimpson.igc.net>,
Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
From: craig@mci.net (Craig A. Haney)
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, hcb@clark.net, nanog@merit.edu
At 02:44 PM 4/8/96, David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz wrote:
>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
you are missing the definitions of Peering vs. Transit.
craig
