UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?

Tue May 6 05:43:45 UTC 1997

cnordin at ever.just.net (Craig Nordin) writes:

> Routing Question:
> 
> If backbone providers A, B, and C are fully peering with one another
> and little guy X has no peering with A but does with B and C.  Will
> packets still travel from X(customer) to A(customer) and back again?

Yes, via B or C.  That is to say that it's sufficient to buy transit once,
assuming the connectivity between A, B and C is working.  Note that this
isn't always the case.  ;-(

Tony