Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> This sort of local-pref default seems to be a common practice with
> backbones. It's very annoying. I wish they'd stop.

Most of their customers would actually be very unhappy if they stopped. This local-pref default prevents many many 
problems and in the vast majority of cases provides the desired result. Yes, it's important to know what is going on 
and to be able to ask your providers to make necessary changes in circumstances where this is not optimal (either via 
community or ticket), but I assure you that if every backbone turned this off suddenly, most internet users would be 
very !HAPPY.

Owen