Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 10/18/21 1:51 PM, Sabri Berisha wrote:
> I know that there are a lot of risks with hamfisted gubbermint
> > regulations. But even when StarLink turns the sky into perpetual
> > daylight and we get another provider, there are going to still be
> > painfully few choices, and too often the response to $EVIL is not "oh
> > great, more customers for us!" but "oh great, let's do that too!".
> That's the point where MBAs take over from engineering to squeeze every last
> penny out of the customer. And that usually happens when a company gets large.

So what's the counter? I mean, MSO's already pull that kind of shitty 
behavior with their "fees" cloaked as taxes.

Maybe a better argument is that this is all theoretical since to my 
knowledge it's not being done on any large scale, so let's not fix 
theoretical problems.


> > This is obviously complicated and one of the complications is QoS in the
> > last mile. DOCSIS has a lot of QoS machinery so that MSO's could get CBR
> > like flows for voice back in the day. I'm not sure whether this ever got
> > deployed because as is often the case, brute force and ignorance (ie,
> > make the wire faster) wins, mooting the need. Is there even a
> > constructive use of QoS in the last mile these days that isn't niche?
> > Maybe gaming? Would any sizable set of customers buy it if it were offered?
> It's been a few years since I've worked for a residential service provider,
> but to the best of my memory, congestion was rarely found in the last mile.

That's what I figured. I remember talking to some Sprint architect types 
around the same time when I told them all of their insistence on AAL2 
was useless because voice was going to be drop in the bucket. They 
looked at me as if I was completely insane.

Mike