[12344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: not rewriting next-hop, pointing default, ...s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Fri Sep 12 14:46:48 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: amb@xara.net (Alex.Bligh)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:39:34 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nathan@netrail.net, freedman@netaxs.com, bilse@eu.net, nshen@mci.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709121828.TAA13472@diamond.xara.net> from "Alex.Bligh" at Sep 12, 97 07:28:05 pm
> > > 1 maeegw1.us.insnet.net (192.41.177.112) [AS 3491] 8 msec 4 msec 8 msec
> > > 2 Vienna1.VA.ALTER.NET (192.41.177.249) [AS 3491] 4 msec 8 msec 4 msec
> > > 3 Vienna1.VA.ALTER.NET (192.41.177.249) [AS 3491] !H * *
>
> Before you throw too many stones, these guys (I happen to know) take
> transit from UUnet, and not, before you ask, over the MAE. Personally
> I don't see a problem with this behaviour as a last resort.
>
> Alex Bligh
> Xara Networks
I happen to know the same thing :)
I never said that insnet or pipex didn't have every right to default into
UUNET, as a primary or as a last resort...
Avi
