[8157] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Kilmer)
Thu Mar 13 15:00:59 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:42:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>
To: Vince Fuller <vaf@valinor.barrnet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.2.858281395.vaf@valinor.barrnet.net>
Vince Fuller writes:
>I can see why you present inconsistant routes to us but I'm not sure that I
>understand why you'd prefer a customer prefix via a direct connection to them
>at one point in your network but via a connection to another provider at a
>different point in your network. That would seem internally inconsistant to
>me. Is this deliberate behavior to do shortest-exit within your network toward
>your customer?
We have some customers that have specifically requested this sort of arrangement.
-Hank
