[4847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Mon Sep 30 05:17:28 1996
To: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
cc: barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff), nanog@merit.edu, neil@EASYNET.NET
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:34:46 BST."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:13:12 +0100
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:34:46 +0100 (BST)
Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org> alleged:
> Some of us are very sensitive about this, and once when we lost
> all connecivity to the outside of the UK (going back about 18 months
> now) we made sure we *phoned* a couple of LINX peers (thanks to
> those at PIPEX and JANET at the time) to ask if we could just add
> forwarder entried in our DNS servers towards them for some level
> of name service. JANET was also down - same tx atlanic cable, but
> PIPEX had connectivity. They said yes, and then we did. I treat
> unwelcome data at whatever level as theft of something that belongs
> to me/us etc.
Slight detail, The LINX didn't exist then and it was PIPEX and EUNET
that was used.
>
> The really sad thing is that in that 18 months, I can't see the
> above being repeated again, since most ISPs are now run by faceless
> monsters and not the engineers (who made it all work). Death of
> the net predicted... pics at 11.
>
Yah, I agree. I'm seeing it more and more everyday!
Regards,
Neil.
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