[3713] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Aug 17 08:04:42 1996
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 07:50:45 -0400
To: curtis@ans.net
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: curtis@ans.net, "Chris MacFarland" <chris@computek.net>,
"Tim Crowell" <tcrowell@gte.net>, nanog@merit.edu
At 07:44 AM 8/17/96 -0400, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>From a purely pragmatic standpoint, what good is having a dual homed
>prefix if Sprint and other major providers drops your prefix and you
>can't get to places? Better to number into one of the provider's
>aggregates. The more specific will go to everyone willing to take it
>and anyone not willing to take the more specific can still get there.
>
Well, that was my point, in a roundabout way. :-)
This is a Catch-22.
- paul
