Is it normal for your provider to withhold BGP peering info until the night of the cut?

Thu Jan 21 22:20:18 UTC 2016

* William Herrin:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:26 PM, c b <bz_siege_01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> We have 4 full-peering providers between two data centers. Our
>> accounting people did some shopping and found that there was
>> a competitor who came in substantially lower this year and
>> leadership decided to swap our most expensive circuit to the new carrier.
>
> That's the first mistake. Internet w/ BGP is not a mass-market
> service. Accounting people have no business searching out highly
> technical custom products and services.

I guess that's why so many customers keep paying for circuits that
have long been shut down. :)