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Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:03:54 +0200
Because routing to peers as a policy instead of customer as a matter of policy, outside of corner cases make logical sence.
welcome to the internet, it does not always make logical sense at first glance. the myth in academia that customers are always preferred over peers comes from about '96 when vaf complained to asp and me (and we moved it to nanog for general discussion) that we were not announcing an identical prefix list to him at east and west. the reason turned out to be that, on one of the routers, a peer path was shorter in some cases, so we had chosen it. we were perfectly happy with that but vaf was not, and he ran the larger network so won the discussion. randy
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- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics, (continued)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Dobbins, Roland (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Alexander Harrowell (Sep 06)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Neil J. McRae (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics deleskie (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Randy Bush (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics jim deleskie (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Randy Bush (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics jim deleskie (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Randy Bush (Sep 05)
- Preferring peers over customers [was: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics] Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 05)
- Re: Preferring peers over customers [was: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics] Jared Mauch (Sep 05)
- RE: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Leigh Porter (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Randy Bush (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Randy Bush (Sep 05)
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- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Jennifer Rexford (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Randy Bush (Sep 05)
- Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics Jennifer Rexford (Sep 05)