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Re: the Internet Backbone
- From: David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz
- Date: Mon Apr 08 15:47:13 1996
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> Now, many 2nd level providers that *could* operate default-free choose
> not to. Even if you have three or more sets of 30k+ routes each, it
> takes balls to risk dropping packets that your customers want you to
> deliver just so that you can have the packet be dropped at your router
> instead of at your (possibly backup) transit provider's router.
>
> Avi
Can't anyone who takes full routes from any tier 1 provider
operate without a default route? And isn't it a reasonable assumption
that if you don't have a route somewhere, odds are they don't have a
route to you (assuming you do your own BGP routing) and so a default
route is mostly pointless anyway?
What am I missing?
DS
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