In the referenced message, James Smith said:
-----Original Message----- From: E.B. Dreger [mailto:eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:08 PM To: James Smith Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: DNS DOS increasing?
BGP isn't that expensive. ----
For some, it is a cost that can be mitigated by "workaround" technologies that are cheaper.
Of course, it could be argued that if you're not willing to make the investment to do it the BGP way, you don't really need it bad enough.
Enter the salesman who is heard to tell his prospects "...you don't have the cost of BGP, you get the same effect as BGP, and you don't even have to tell your ISP!".
With the added benefit of not increasing the routing table size. The downfall is (potentially) increased address consumption (perhaps mitigated in that small entities doubling a /28 is still better than lying cheating and stealing for a "large" PI or PA block).
James H. Smith II NNCDS NNCSE Systems Engineer The Presidio Corporation
By the way, I speak only for myself, which gets me in enough trouble...