[3083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Sprint's route filters and Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Mon Jun 3 12:25:45 1996
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 03 Jun 1996 07:44:21 PDT.
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From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 18:19:12 +0200
> Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> writes:
>
> No quarrel with that, but the folks who pay those high fees kind of
> expected that they were guaranteed to work on the global Internet.
Our documentation clearly tells them that this may be a wrong expectation
and also tells them where to complain. Now if people would read
documentation the world would be a better place .... ;-(
> I started this thread because a European ISP could not find out from
> either Sprint or his own upstream NSP or RIPE, why were these routes being
> blocked and what could he do to unblock them.
I am quite sure we point everyone with routing problems in the direction
of the ISP concerned. I realise that some find this not too helpful,
but what else can we do?
> This points out to me that
> there may still be some room for improvement in opening up avanues of
> communication.
Concrete suggestions are always welcome.
Daniel
