[2526] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Apr 8 19:26:25 1996
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:22:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: "David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz" <stimpson@stimpson.igc.net>
cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>, bmanning@isi.edu, hcb@clark.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960408154303.10895B-100000@stimpson.igc.net>
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, 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
Yes
> 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
Yes/No
> route is mostly pointless anyway?
Ok, why look through 30K routes instad of just sending all packets out the
default.
>
> What am I missing?
A lot.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
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