Re: Best Common Practice - Listening to local routes from peers?

[Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>]

On Feb 27, 2004, at 1:21 AM, James Edwards wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 21:22, Michael Smith wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > We have a customer of a customer who is attempting to send traffic 
> > from
> > IP space we control, through the Internet and back into us via one of
> > our transit connections.

> Gotta ask, Why ? They have a direct connection (few hops) to you and 
> are
> trying to go the long way, right ?

Well, there are possible cost considerations.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, if the customer's line to his 
network drops, should the customer be incapable of getting to content 
hosted on his network?

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TTFN,
patrick