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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Morrow < [email protected]> wrote: > > It strikes me that often just doing a reverse lookup on the peer > address would be 'good enough' to keep things more 'local' in a > network sense. Something like: > > 1) prefer peers with PTR's like mine (perhaps get address from a > public-ish server - myipaddress.com/ipchicken.com/dshield.org) > 2) prefer peers within my /24->/16 ? > > This does depend on what you define as 'local' as well, 'stay off my > transit links' or 'stay off my last-mile' or 'stay off that godawful > expensive VZ link from CHI to NYC in my backhaul network... Well. here's your problem; depending on the architecture, the IP addressing structure doesn't necessarily map to the network's cost structure. This is why I prefer the P4P/DillTorrent announcement model. Alex _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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