[33615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Wed Jan 17 22:09:45 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:07:36 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Danny McPherson <danny@ambernetworks.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:39:41PM -0700, Danny McPherson wrote:
>
> And often enough, I've seen MEDs result in worst-exit routing.
> That is, routing that was intended to be better than closest-exit
> (aka. hot-potato), but turns out to be far worse than best-exit
> (I believe some refer to this as cold-potato *8^/) because an
> adjacent AS in unable to correctly convey the optimal entry point
> into their AS via MEDs, be it because of GOOD aggregation, or
> uncluefully derived MED values.
I believe Avi Freedman would call that "mashed-potato" routing.
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