Re: [nznog] Peering.

Matthew Poole wrote:

Xtra's customer base suddenly being unable to access TradeMe and NZDating would kill their helldesk.

Probably not. It's very hard for Joe and Joetta Dial-Up to figure out deliberately munted routing policy. They will assume that it's the Web site itself that's "slow and broken", or the network it is on. Said helldesk would be scripted to assign the blame elsewhere. That's why refusing peering is powerful as a business lever. You decide who your end-users will do business with on the Interwebnet, basically. -- Juha