One example is if the customer is doing ROKI ROV validation (and their upstream isn't) having a default would defeat ROV validation 

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024, 20:40 <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
Why would a single homed customer not take a default route?

> On Sep 20, 2024, at 1:25 PM, Tarko Tikan <tarko@lanparty.ee> wrote:
>
> hey,
>
>> Yeah, no. Provided they are singlehomed customers who generally set (or take) a
>> default route to that transit, they are completely fine. Their transit knows
>> the prefix and will use it. It gets more problematic for multihomed customers.
>
> Well I have no idea why do you say that all such customers always have default route pointed to their transit provider. If that is the case then everything is OK ofc but you can't really take that for granted.
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> tarko