[40989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi-homing fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Aug 28 06:12:44 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:10:53 +0800
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> Randy's point is that basement resellers of dedicated services
> in particular are typically reselling to enough people that they have
> larger address-space needs than a /24 and can qualify for and get their
> own space.
>
> The legitimate use of a microallocation is a small, but highly
> trafficed service that badly needs to be multihomed -- remember we
> started this thread with a conversation about eBay and CNN.
>
> This is not a small provider catch all.
bingo!
