[46851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: genuity - any good?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Apr 12 19:51:08 2002
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:50:20 -0700
From: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
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To: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
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Registering is not "bad", its just not beneficial. Given that the routes I want
to announce are within my assigned range, why is it a good thing to register
them? If the transit provider always add entries when I ask for them, it seems
to be very little benefit..
This is the case of transit so I am a customer paying money for a service. I
started this subthread because I felt others would want to know about this. I
made the mistake of buying transit service without asking about their BGP
policies. I was hoping to help by sharing my experience.
Stephen Griffin wrote:
> In the referenced message, Roy said:
> >
> > Two bad experiences for me:
> >
> > 1) Their BGP polices are not as good as others. They force you to register
> > each route you want to advertise rather than allowing you to advertise any
> > reasonable route for your prefixes. According to one of their top people,
> > prefix-lists were unreliable new technology. We gave up and canceled the
> > circuit.
>
> How is registering the routes you are going to announce a bad thing?
