Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

alex at yuriev.com alex at yuriev.com
Sat Mar 1 19:28:49 UTC 2003


> It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You
> pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your
> SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too? And if everyone filters
> your prefixes that will be operational value enough to join!

Because it provides me *no* service what so ever. 

> > What does a RADB tell you about a non-transit network that you can't see
> 
> It tells you who it belongs to, where it should be coming from, possibly contact 
> details.

Presuming that it is correct, which it is NOT in a large percentage of
cases. So again, why am I paying to someone to provide me incorrect
information?

Alex




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