[49963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sat Jul 13 22:45:10 2002
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:44:33 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Frank Scalzo <frank.scalzo@amerinex.net>
Cc: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>, nanog@merit.edu,
Paul Schultz <pschultz@pschultz.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020714022001.GI99199@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:20:01PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> Supposidly Level 3 requires IRR filtering on their peers, but do they
> actually try to enforce this? I know they do an excellent job maintaining
> their own IRR entries, but I'm certain they peer with people who don't
> have a current db. Probably not, since the vast majority of their current
> peers don't meet their current peering requirements. :)
Hehehe ok someone answered this question for me privately...
For example:
> whois -h whois.radb.net 64.206.3.0/20
...
route: 64.206.3.0/24
descr: Proxy-registered route object for Sprint :-)
origin: AS7136
remarks: auto-generated route object
remarks: this next line gives the robot something to recognize
remarks: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
remarks:
remarks: This route object is for a Sprint customer route
remarks: which is being exported under this origin AS.
remarks:
remarks: This route object was created because no existing
remarks: route object with the same origin was found, and
remarks: we really just wanted to help out those poor Sprint
remarks: folks who have an aversion to registering routes.
remarks:
remarks: We hope they have a sense of humor.
remarks:
remarks: Please contact WeLoveThoseCrazySprintFolks@Level3.net
remarks: if you have any questions regarding this object.
mnt-by: SPRINT-MNT
changed: WeLoveThoseCrazySprintFolks@Level3.net 20020626
source: LEVEL3
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