[3755] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Aug 19 18:17:19 1996
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 14:57 PDT
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> In my (rather extensive) practice, multihoming by itself is
> usually a major source of connectivity problems.
in my meager and bottom-feeding scum-sucking practice, multi-homing
decreased unreliability delivered to our customers by a factor of ten
or more.
this very moment i am sitting at a site which is single-homed to an
anonymous NSP's major POP in a farming town in mid-Cal. i can not get
to www.cisco.com from here. yet i can get to my home net, which is
quite multi-homed, and get to cisco from there.
so, as we say in my family, i smell cows.
> It is _much_ better to multihome to the same provider who then
> can take care of messy global routing.
just what i always wanted, two connections to a broken provider. you
must be kidding.
randy
