[28256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Table Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Sat Apr 22 07:15:33 2000
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From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>
To: "Jesper Skriver" <jesper@skriver.dk>,
"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:09:46 +0100
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> UUnet is especially "evil" in this respect, here in Denmark, UUnet is a
> relative small provider, but targets end users heavily, and thus wants
> to peer with the larger providers here, so their end users gets fast
> connectivity to domestic sites. But they only advertise their danish
> networks, and doesn't propagate our routes into the rest of AS702.
>
> On the other hand, in countries where UUnet is the big player, like in
> the UK, they refuse to peer - very inconsistent ...
This has been standard UUnet policy since whenever. Evil is not quite the
right word - that implies too much malicious forethought. "Greedy",
"whinging", "selfish" spring more to mind.
Peter
