[50009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verio arrogance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Jul 15 17:18:26 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:17:33 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207151704480.5333-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>
> http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter
>
> It seems if I were one of their customers they would accept my
> 66.11.168/23 announcement and re-announce it to their peers, but they
> won't accept it from any of their peers.
As a customer you pay them to announce your /23, as a peer you don't.
Their line of logic is that if you are a peer of theirs you don't have to
accept that /23 either.
> Announcing a covering /20 along with the regional more specifics I have
> will only serve to increase the size of the routing table for most
> backbones, and lead to sub optimal routing in some cases since I'm
> announcing the more specifics due to geographical diversity.
Announce the /20 to your transit providers, and the more specifics with
no-export. Verio's position is that they don't want to or need to hear
your /23s unless you are a customer, and for the most part they are right.
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