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Re: Randy Bush et al

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bowman)
Fri Sep 12 03:01:32 1997

From: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
To: vbono@comstor.com
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:49:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709120458.AAA25033@iris.mai.net> from "Vincent J. Bono" at Sep 11, 97 12:08:10 pm

And we are trying to convince the world that we actually work
together to solve issues?  No wonder our friend Bob still has
material...  this is better than last night's 2 hour 90210
special.
> 
> Well.  After getting back from a trip I find, what?  That Mr. Bush 
> has a bug up his ass.   Bottom line:
> 
> - We do default route.  Into a Sprint T3 that we pay for.  :-)
> 
> - We do not pass no-next-hop-self routes - Check around, if someone 
> was as bright as they think they are it would be obvious.
> 
> - We only peered with Verio in the first place becuase someone other 
> than Randy contacted us
> 
> - We formerly sent a lot of traffic to Verio because it's customers 
> love porn, and we have several rather large web farms downstream.
> 
> The number listed in whois is bad, sorry, it happens.  But the number 
> on our web site is not.  
> 
> When there is a problem and we are involved, I say so.  There was no 
> problem here and we won't miss Verio peering one bit.  
> 
> Vinny
> vbono@comstor.com
> 888-624-8700 NOC
> 702-802-0222 ext 3148 voice
> 
> 
> BTW: Below is the "snotty" message that was sent to our 
> NOC and it's reply.  Who was snottier than who?
> 
> 
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Date:          Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:34:58 -0400
> From:          Matt Luebke <mluebke@mclean.mai.net>
> To:            Randy Bush <randy@verio.net>
> Cc:            noc@verio.net, noc@mai.net
> Subject:       Re: you have been depeered
> 
> 
> 
> Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > your peering at mae-east is very unacceptable.  the phone number in whois is
> > answered by a modem.  so you have been de-peered with 2914.
> >
> > randy
> 
>   Our peering at mae-east is very acceptable to us. However we find that Verio
> brings nothing to our table. Thank you and Goodbye.
> 
> Matt
> 


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