[16573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Routing Policy and http://rs.arin.net/ip-allocation.html
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Wed May 6 12:24:46 1998
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:04:40 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
For the first time we have had to deal with Sprint's routing policy as
defined by http://www.sprint.net/filter.htm. Here is the situation.
One of our dialup customers wants to access his website in the
206.116.31.0/24 network at another provider. PSI is advertising it as a
/24. According to Sprint's routing policy, they do not honour anything
longer than a /19 in 206.0.0.0/8 .
I am now in the position trying to explain to the very non-technical
customer, why he cant reach that site, which from his point of view just
seems like I am passing the buck...
Anyways, my question is, are their any other ISPs/NSPs that follow the same
guidelines. UUNet seems to honor it just fine, as does MCI. Is Sprint
more hardnosed than most ?
---Mike
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