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

[Ishmael Mulli (KE)]

    Hi 
I agree with your idea, I believe this policy of placing greater significance to external links worked when we didn't have significant local content or even  IXPs to carry this traffic  and have not evolved fast enough to accommodate these changes.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:37 AM
To: Ishmael Mulli (KE)
Cc: Andrew Alston; afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 06:22:59 AM Ishmael Mulli (KE)
wrote:

> We experienced this problem a couple of years back  and one major 
> realization we made was that a lot of the providers out there were 
> propagating routes with different prefix lengths  from different 
> points within their network as opposed to consistently propagating the 
> exact prefix  from the core outwards.

Ishmael, this is the succinct observation, yes. The question is - why?

I've posited some ideas as to why I think this happens. Do you have any thoughts on the same?

Mark.

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