oh k can you see
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Tue Nov 1 20:30:31 UTC 2005
> 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.
bingo!
thanks to, among other techno-colonialist games, the usaid leland
intiative, entire countries are direct non-bgp customers of a local
telco monopoly which is a customer of a european or american telco
monopoly.
randy
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