Thus spake "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2007-12-05 14:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
There is an outstanding question whether there's any way to get leaf ASes
currently putting their RLOCs in the DFZ to remove them from BGP, turn
them into EIDs, and map them to RLOCs they get from their upstreams.
That will be forced on them by their transit providers, surely? Whoever
is the first recipient of their BGP4 advertisements can suppress
them.
Call me a cynic, but "follow the money" applies. I'm paying my transit
provider for bandwidth, and if necessary I'll pay them to accept my routes
and advertise them to customers and peers. In markets with competition, the
price will tend towards zero because it costs the transit provider close to
nothing and sales types will agree to anything to get their commission on
the bandwidth.
So, my transit isn't going to filter my route. However, their customers and
peers may. If the majority do, I have to change my strategy; if it's a
minority, I can depend on _their_ customers forcing them to stop because my
web site (or whatever) works on all their competitors' networks.
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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