On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Andy Linton wrote:
Note they've declined to peer with the route servers at APE so you'll need a bilateral agreement with them if you want to exchange routes. I think it would be a win for all of us if MCI would peer with the route servers as each of you wouldn't have to be negotiating a seperate peering arrangement. As the US motto says: E pluribus unum - out of many, one!
Well, they're not sure what to do with NZ peering at this stage. There are reasons for not using the RS', two of which impact us: 1) AS Path length. Since the RS' have valid ASNs, we end up seeing an additional AS in the path. Tweaking localpref to prefer RS routes is not always feasible. 2) We don't like traffic to randomly change directions. We announce into the RS' at APE and WIX, but are quite restrictive in what we accept back in order to stop big flow-changes. That said, I do have a question: Who is on WIX, but does not peer with the RS'? If anyone is like this, please contact me so we can establish peering. aj -- Network Operations || noc. +64.9.915.1825 Maxnet || cell. +64.21.639.706