[19516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTEI/Exodus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Wed Sep 16 11:28:09 1998
X-Envelope-To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:19:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
To: dhiraj murthy <soa@funkytekno.exodus.net>
cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>, Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>,
list@inet-access.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980916103638.917B-100000@funkytekno>
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, dhiraj murthy wrote:
> last i checked www.spicegirls.com wasn't on the exodus network.
>
> i think it's on netkonect.net
Well, last time I was at your Joisey colo, I saw a Sun Ultra labeled
"spice girls" somewhere. I never bothered to investigate further; my bad.
> whitehouse.com is on exodus though... ;)
Indeed!
> as per the contractual issues, all they told lowly engineers like myself
> was that we could disclose publicly the fact:
>
> 1. we have reached a solution with GTEi
> 2. it includes expanding ds3's with them
> 3. we're not buying transit or paying for peering
Question is: How does money pass hands? Do you pay any "facilities" costs
to GTEI/BBN, that technically may not be considered "paying for peering",
for isntance?
> 4. we're like friends and stuff now... ;)
>
> i'm sure when bowman gets up, he'll have something to say. he probably has
> a LOT more insight into #3
Insight is good.
