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exodus.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = postal.exodus.net > John Curran wrote: > > > > Customers who receive traffic currently bear some of the costs > > and the sending customer bears some of the costs. In the case > > of an off-net sender with shortest-exit routing and no offsetting > > traffic in the other direction, the receiving customer ends up > > bearing all of the costs. > > I guess 'all the cost' means most of the cost, and 'no offsetting traffic' > means 'not much offsetting traffic'. > > However, is the real problem here the traffic assymetry, or the fact that > all of the traffic is coming from one geographic location? > > If it is the former, then there isn't much of a solution except to merge > with a network that sucks a huge amount of traffic. However, if it is the > latter, then wouldn't content distribution fix it? I know many web farms > offer distributed servers to their customers as a type of premium service. > However, since in this case it benefits all parties involved, it seems to me > that it might make sense to offer this service to huge web sites at little > or no additional cost. > Actually, if the content provider simply honors MEDs, that should cover most of the issue. Then, the long haul is done across the content providers' backbone anyway. Owen
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