Or maybe, the four providers named are the same 4 being used by Internap at that node, so effectively terminating the announcement from all 4 directions to Internap solves the problem. Just an idea. DJ
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:56 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
A question :
Doesn't Internap use BGP as part of its load balancing ? Don't they sell / market this service ? Isn't each Internap node connected to > 4 providers ?
SO, wouldn't canceling China Telecom BGP through AT&T CW and UUnet do nothing except cause some BGP advertisement changes at Internap ?
Marshall
Sean Donelan wrote:
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Ok here's a question, why are they sueing AT&T, CW, and UU? I see Listen4ever behind 4134 (China Telecom), who I only see buying transit through InterNAP. Wouldn't it be simpler for them to sue InterNAP? I guess it would sure be nice precedent, if they could make some big tier 1 providers do their bidding to filter whoever they want whenever they want.
The problem with BGP is you only see the "best" path more than one hop away. The network in question is reachable through transit providers other than InterNAP, such as Concert.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/business/media/17MUSI.html
The New York Times says the companies named in the suit are AT&T Broadband (not AT&T's backbone?), Cable & Wireless, Sprint Corporation and UUNet technologies.
"David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer scientist and an early architect of the Internet, filed an affidavit in the case, saying it would be relatively easy for the Internet companies to block the Internet address of the Web site without disrupting other traffic.
"It's not a big hassle," Mr. Farber said. "There's no way to stop everybody, but a substantial number of people will not be able to get access."
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