[5569] in North American Network Operators' Group
The road not taken (was Re: Ungodly packet loss rates)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Oct 21 23:41:04 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:37:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>You're transiting two NAPs (MAE-WEST and the DEC exchange (?)) which
>both provide service that's essential on one hand (wide access to
>the greater Internet) and lousy on the other hand (focussed access
>to a particular site).
This whole thread seems to have taken a wrong turn somewhere, or ignored
the fact that this is really goofy routing.
Best (TLG) and BBNplanet are both at mae-west, yet velvet.com packets
traverse Alternet to get to cisco.com. Cisco also appears to have a
direct connection to Alternet which is also at mae-west, yet the packets
traverse BBNplanet.
I would prefer to think there is an 'Oops' somewhere. I don't know why
any provider would purposely do this to their customer's traffic.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
