[7837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP announcements and small providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff White)
Wed Feb 26 11:38:28 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:30:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>
To: Adrian Bool <aid@u-net.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Marcel-1.09-0226091507-0b079cR@ram.noc.u-net.net>
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Adrian Bool wrote:
> On Wed 26 Feb, Matt Ranney wrote:
> > As it is, if the interface-defaulted squid machine was dual-homed to
> > providers X and Y that don't peer, a customer of X could get the A
> > record for the interface in Y's space. The client would then have to
> > take the transit path between X and Y, which for many X's and Y's,
> > sucks.
>
> You could take in all the BGP data from your providers (read-only as it
> were) then link that into your DNS server so that it returns an IP
> address according to the 'best' (however you define that...) route
> that you have back to them...?
>
> aid
>
I think the whole purpose t Paul V's madness in creating this solution was
to avoid doing just that.
Also I seem to remember something in Paul's take that took care of this
situation. Maybe he can elaborate.
Geoff White
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