Network for Sale

Tue Feb 20 15:22:54 UTC 2001

nanog at Overkill.EnterZone.Net (John Fraizer) writes:

> I suspect that your new technology simply adds another variable to the
> best-path-selection process based on your ping/traceroute script RTT's to
> a specific network based on what you have divolged thusfar.

Oh god, I hope not.  RTT has never been an accurate predictor of end-to-end
performance.  (Just ask anyone who bought into ping-based global server load
balancing.)  ASPATH length is almost as bad (as a predictor) as RTT.

Serve to learn, man.