Re: A DNS Based Mapping Peering System for Peering CDNs

[Eric Dean <eric@crystalballinc.com>]

BGP also summarizes most information.  For example, a former company had
their entire network and customers advertised as a /14.

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Oliver Spatscheck wrote:

> 
> 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.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > --
>  > Alex French
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>  > 
> 

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