History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?

Wed Feb 17 21:08:40 UTC 2010

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at foobar.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:56 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
> 
> On 17/02/2010 20:51, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> > [Tomas L. Byrnes] We were a small regional ISP with only one main
POP
> at
> > the time.
> 
> off-net resolvers means that your continued customer satisfaction (and
> therefore your continued reliable cash-flow) is completely dependent
on
> maintaining a good working relationship between your company and the
> company which operates the resolvers.  If - for whatever reason - they
> decide to shut off services to your customers, your business will take
> a
> serious impact.
> 
> Nick

[Tomas L. Byrnes] We had, and maintained, a good relationship, and the
services were reciprocal. The resolvers were only tertiary anyway.

YMMV, it worked for us. Different times.