[3770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Mon Aug 19 21:23:26 1996
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
cc: hank@rem.com, jon@branch.com, hank@sprint.net, nanog@merit.edu,
randy@psg.com, smd@chops.icp.net
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:14:28 PDT."
<199608191914.MAA02347@quest.quake.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:10:21 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199608191914.MAA02347@quest.quake.net>, Vadim Antonov writes:
> In my (rather extensive) practice, multihoming by itself is
> usually a major source of connectivity problems.
>
> Whoever arguing _for_ mulihoming for everyone forgets that
> taking more routing information in has dangers not present
> when you don't do routing yourself.
>
> I never saw any customer who had the ability to configure a
> multihomed site properly on their own; and most of the bogus
> routing information comes from multihomed customer sites.
Doesn't that only happen when you don't filter routing information you
get from your customers and peers. ;-)
Curtis
