One main POP does not mean single homed. We had multiple upstreams, entrance facilities, and peers. We just had one facility where it all was, and our remote users were often dialing into third party banks based on reciprocity agreements when they were out of area. It was 12 years ago. Consolidation has rendered a lot of the collaboration from those days moot.
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick@ianai.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:11 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
In summary, could someone educate me on the benefits of having RNSes outside your network?
[Tomas L. Byrnes] We were a small regional ISP with only one main POP at the time.
If you are single homed, you -are- your upstream's network, er, AS. I was careful to use "AS" and not "network" or "ISP" in my post - except the last line. :)
-- TTFN, patrick