[afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

[Roland Dobbins]

On May 13, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:

> Despite explaining the situation to the relevant providers, over and over again, and concretely demonstrating the negative effects of what they are doing, the only answer you get is “We aren’t changing, we do traffic control like that”

Topological inefficiencies aside, what is their rationale for shifting this traffic to paid transit vs. (presumably) settlement-free peering over an IX?

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