[50011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verio arrogance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Mon Jul 15 17:56:32 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:55:51 -0400 (EDT)
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To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207151704480.5333-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>
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This is really old news...actually, I seem to recall that they would only
accept /19 or shorter prefixes from former Class A & B space...I pressed
Sprint for a /21 from the swamp (instead of the former Class A space /21
they initially assigned) because of Verio's policy, in fact. They must
have softened the policy within the past year or so to /21 or shorter.
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ralph Doncaster
> principal, IStop.com
>
>
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am
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