[56284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sat Mar 1 14:31:34 2003
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:28:49 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303011641550.13162-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You
> pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your
> SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too? And if everyone filters
> your prefixes that will be operational value enough to join!
Because it provides me *no* service what so ever.
> > What does a RADB tell you about a non-transit network that you can't see
>
> It tells you who it belongs to, where it should be coming from, possibly contact
> details.
Presuming that it is correct, which it is NOT in a large percentage of
cases. So again, why am I paying to someone to provide me incorrect
information?
Alex
