[20648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL announcements (aka aggregation anyone?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Tue Oct 20 00:23:52 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:59:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981019231340.19405D-100000@null0.qual.net>
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Bradley Reynolds wrote:
> In their best attempts to defeat selecting AOL
> paths through ANS, AOL is announcing many (all?)
> of their specifics out sprint. This has pretty much defeated
> my efforts to force traffic out ans.
>
> Does anyone know why they are doing this? Customers are complaining
> of > 1 s ping times trying to reach aol and though I don't want
> to configure the routers to appease the customers (as if) the drone
> of complaints is annoying.
*snip*
> Does anyone have insight they could share with me?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if it's a problem, why don't you
just filter their routes?
Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664
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