FD-IX: Local-pref and default routes
I just finished up an article over on the FD-IX blog about local-prefs, default routes, and Internet exchanges.
https://www.fd-ix.com/uncategorized/local-pref-and-default-routes/
Not everyone on the Internet needs full feeds from their provider. In this case, how does learning routes from an Internet Exchange such as FD-IX benefit you if all you are doing is default routes?
So let’s take a scenario. You are a local hosting company. You don’t provide Internet to customers, you just do hosting of websites and data. You have a couple of providers you are buying Internet from, mainly for redundancy. One of these is primary and the other is a backup. You are doing BGP just because. All you are receiving from these providers is a default route and that is it. Why would you want to receive all these routes from an IX?
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