[46462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Help with bad announcement from UUnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (batz)
Fri Mar 29 12:00:18 2002
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:50:51 -0500 (EST)
From: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>,
"Mark E. Mallett" <mem@mv.mv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
:Why should they talk to you? You're not a paying customer..
Because their network transits _most_ internet traffic and
as a courtesy, they should provide some bare level of
diagnostic services to the rest of the network.
Maybe this has changed, but last I checked UUNet was practically
ideologically opposed to providing a public looking glass inside
701 or 703.
So many problems could be solved that way, IMHO. All providers
that originate a certain percentage of all prefixes should be obligated
to provide a public looking glass.
This always made me really mad that the rest of the Internet had to
rely on the charity of a few provders for basic diagnostic tools.
However, this could very well have changed if there was a public
lg in uunet.
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batz