[56304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Mar 2 15:19:31 2003
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:15:59 -0800
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: alex@yuriev.com
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10303011425000.25516-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 11:28 America/Vancouver, alex@yuriev.com
wrote:
>> 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.
Then don't use it. Surely this is not rocket science.
>>> 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?
You're not. You're paying to provide other people with information
about you. Retrieving other peoples' incorrect information is free.
Joe
