[36268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint and peering points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Sun Apr 1 03:56:49 2001
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:45:03 -0800
From: Alan Hannan <alan@routingloop.com>
To: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> I have found that Sprint is prepending their AS when sending routes to many
> of the public exchanges (example "1239 1239 20001") in order to "shift load"
> to private peer connections.
...
> Needless to say I am a bit pissed at Sprint for doing this and not telling
> me.
It's arguable that they _did_ tell you; in the truest sense,
the BGP update.
-alan
....
> I had been a fan of Sprint until this happened. Anyone else out there
> seeing the same problems? Any ideas on how to cure it
>
> Roy Engehausen
>
