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Re: Network for Sale


From: Paul Vixie <vixie () mfnx net>
Date: 20 Feb 2001 07:22:54 -0800


nanog () Overkill EnterZone Net (John Fraizer) writes:

I suspect that your new technology simply adds another variable to the
best-path-selection process based on your ping/traceroute script RTT's to
a specific network based on what you have divolged thusfar.

Oh god, I hope not.  RTT has never been an accurate predictor of end-to-end
performance.  (Just ask anyone who bought into ping-based global server load
balancing.)  ASPATH length is almost as bad (as a predictor) as RTT.

Serve to learn, man.


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