[40861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi-homing fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Hagerty)
Thu Aug 23 19:09:45 2001
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From: Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org>
Reply-To: Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog-post@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20010823183252.A72404@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:07:46 -0400
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> Multi-homing is here to stay, in a big way. It will only become
> more popular, no matter how good the ISP's become, for a number of
> reasons. Any future protocol or policy discussions should take
> this as a given.
Please don't confuse "I need more than one pipe into the internet"
with "my organization must place its prefixes into the default free
zone".
It is possible to effectively use multiple pipes into many ISPs
without the cost to all of us that introducing your prefix into the
DFZ has.
