[50013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verio arrogance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Jul 15 18:10:57 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:10:23 -0400
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Unless you are in "the swamp" - the old Class C, where I believe that
they do accept /24's.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> 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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