Re: verio arrogance

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 10:49:21PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> > Announce your largest aggregate, and announce more-specifics tagged
> > no-export to those peers who agree to accept them?
>
> Which is worse than announcing just the more specifics to 2 different
> transit providers in 2 different cities.

Worse for those two transit providers, not the rest of the world.

> > Upgrade the connectivity between your sites?
> Technically sound, economically stupid.  You offering to pony up the
> $5K/mth for an OC3 so I can have a redundant link between Ottawa and
> Toronto?

You are choosing to save money by poluting the global routing table. There 
may not be anything wrong with that, but don't be surprised when you hit 
providers who don't want or need to listen to your more specifics.

Stop whining about it and fix your announcements.

> Besides the technical aspects of my network, I didn't see any proof that
> relaxed prefix filtering (and no I'm not saying accept /32's - the more
> specifics I got Verio to accept were /23's) would cause significant
> (i.e. >30%) routing table bloat when that was recently discussed.

Verio carries something in the low 90k's, about a 20k savings (18%).

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