Re: A DNS Based Mapping Peering System for Peering CDNs

[Oliver Spatscheck <spatsch@research.att.com>]

In my experience BGP tables which are neither loss nor latency sensitive
are not a good choice... .

Oliver

Alex French writes:
 > At 10:22 AM 30/11/2000, Abbie Barbir wrote:
 > >I do agree with you. However, there are methods that could be used to make 
 > >this
 > >task relatively simple.
 > >If there is enought interest we could discuss the methods in future 
 > >communications.
 > 
 > This is getting into more of an implementation issue, but I suppose the BGP 
 > tables could be used to estimate shortest path to clients; most major 
 > network nodes will already have a BGP router doing these calculations.
 > 
 > 
 > 
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