[2501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sun Apr 7 15:16:43 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: flatline@ironhorse.com (Christopher E. Stefan)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: bsimpson@morningstar.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960407115334.25271Z-100000@caboose.ironhorse.com> from "Christopher E. Stefan" at Apr 7, 96 11:57:49 am
> On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you can tell me where PSI connects, good sir...
> > By my count it's MAE-East and CIX and nowhere else.
> [snip]
>
> While I agree with the point Avi was trying to make I thought I might
> point out the little tidbit below:
> traceroute to www.psi.net (38.8.64.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> [snip]
<snip>
> 8 mae-west.psi.com (198.32.136.23) 145.853 ms 145.555 ms 136.282 ms
> 9 core.net99.psi.net (38.1.2.10) 208.164 ms 180.217 ms 140.287 ms
> 10 www2.psi.net (38.8.64.2) 208.077 ms 154.819 ms 220.8 ms
>
> What are the odds that "mae-west.psi.com" is actually a PSI router at
> MAE-west?
>
> Christopher E Stefan
I & others (I'm sure) are happy to hear that PSI is increasing their
connectivity.
Avi
