Re: A DNS Based Mapping Peering System for Peering CDNs

[Alex French <afrench@vianetworks.com>]

Sure, BGP isn't going to provide enough information on its own, but it may 
have uses as one source of information. It seems a pity not to use a "free" 
source of overall network topology.

At 01:56 PM 07/12/2000, Eric Dean wrote:

>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.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
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