oh k can you see
Stephen J. Wilcox
steve at telecomplete.co.uk
Tue Nov 1 20:15:45 UTC 2005
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Joe Abley wrote:
> On 1-Nov-2005, at 14:19, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > or am i naive too?
>
> I think you underestimate the tendencies of ISPs all over the world
> to leak peering routes towards their transit providers.
>
> Contrary to popular belief, leaks through peers in remote regions do
> not always result in huge AS_PATHs which are never selected by the
> rest of the network. For example, some of the most remote and poorly-
> connected ISPs that F is announced to from local nodes are transit
> customers of international, default-free carriers.
ok sure, but is this not just normal transit issues, these are not special
because they are a) anycast b) root-servers? if any networks peers leak they
should be reprimanded
Steve
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