Is multihoming hard? [was: DNS amplification]

Thu Mar 21 01:11:58 UTC 2013

On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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> I don't want the residential customers themselves running BGP at all. However, if there were motivation on the provider side, automated BGP configuration could enable consumers to attach to multiple providers and actually reduce support calls significantly.

Okay, I'll agree, but "if there were motivation" is a very large "if"...

The only motivation would be money, as represented by customers leaving 
to competitors as a result of a service provider not offering your proposed 
service bundle.  

If you can figure out a way to persuade service providers of this belief,
I would ask that you also persuade them that they have to offer dual-stack 
for all of their customers (which may have already resulted in them losing 
a small number of customers who expected IPv6 by now... :-)

Thanks!
/John