Thus spake "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
On 2007-12-05 14:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:There is an outstanding question whether there's any way to get leaf ASes currently putting their RLOCs in the DFZ to remove them from BGP, turn them into EIDs, and map them to RLOCs they get from their upstreams.That will be forced on them by their transit providers, surely? Whoever is the first recipient of their BGP4 advertisements can suppress them.
Call me a cynic, but "follow the money" applies. I'm paying my transit provider for bandwidth, and if necessary I'll pay them to accept my routes and advertise them to customers and peers. In markets with competition, the price will tend towards zero because it costs the transit provider close to nothing and sales types will agree to anything to get their commission on the bandwidth.
So, my transit isn't going to filter my route. However, their customers and peers may. If the majority do, I have to change my strategy; if it's a minority, I can depend on _their_ customers forcing them to stop because my web site (or whatever) works on all their competitors' networks.
S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws theK5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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