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

Sun Mar 2 20:15:59 UTC 2003

On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 11:28 America/Vancouver, alex at yuriev.com 
wrote:

>> 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.

Then don't use it. Surely this is not rocket science.

>>> 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?

You're not. You're paying to provide other people with information 
about you. Retrieving other peoples' incorrect information is free.

Joe