Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop

[Austin Schutz <tex () shrubbery net>]

> If filter policies like Sprint's and Verio's really are common among the
> big backbone providers, that would seem to make it relatively pointless to
> attempt to multi-home with provider supplied IP space.  We have a customer
> interested in multihoming for reliability, but they use so little IP
> space, even assigning them a /24 would be a stretch.  Since the space we
> let them use is in 209.x.x.x, it seems their route wouldn't get far.  So
> how do they make their internet connection more reliable?  Use IP space
> from each of their providers and play games with DNS and NAT?

        Yes, or get their provider to give them a chunk of swamp space (which
a few have tucked away), multihome with the same provider, or find a way
to justify a routable allocation.
        None of these are, IMO, very good solutions.

        Austin