[34822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network for Sale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Tue Feb 20 10:25:20 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Date: 20 Feb 2001 07:22:54 -0800
In-Reply-To: nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net's message of "20 Feb 2001 01:55:32 -0800"
Message-ID: <g3zofhbcq9.fsf@redpaul.mfnx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net (John Fraizer) writes:
> I suspect that your new technology simply adds another variable to the
> best-path-selection process based on your ping/traceroute script RTT's to
> a specific network based on what you have divolged thusfar.
Oh god, I hope not. RTT has never been an accurate predictor of end-to-end
performance. (Just ask anyone who bought into ping-based global server load
balancing.) ASPATH length is almost as bad (as a predictor) as RTT.
Serve to learn, man.
