Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy)

Thu Jan 18 03:07:36 UTC 2001

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:39:41PM -0700, Danny McPherson wrote:
>
> And often enough, I've seen MEDs result in worst-exit routing.
> That is, routing that was intended to be better than closest-exit
> (aka. hot-potato), but turns out to be far worse than best-exit
> (I believe some refer to this as cold-potato *8^/) because an
> adjacent AS in unable to correctly convey the optimal entry point
> into their AS via MEDs, be it because of GOOD aggregation, or
> uncluefully derived MED values.

I believe Avi Freedman would call that "mashed-potato" routing.

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