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Re: quick update #2 (Sprint continues to defend network terrorism)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ranney)
Sat Jan 4 16:50:43 1997

From: Matt Ranney <mjr@wacky.eit.com>
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 13:46:44 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701042121.AA20455@world.std.com> from "Barry Shein" at Jan 4, 97 04:21:13 pm

Barry Shein writes...
> 
[...]
> Understand: Sprint absolutely refuses to put ONE route block into
> their router at iq-internet.com between them and std.com.

So what's the huge difference here between Sprint putting the filter
on one of their routers and you putting it on one of yours?  Can your
routers not afford the extra CPU?  If they can, then just filter them
and be done with it.  Heck, use Paul's OSPF anti-spam prevention to be
extra sure.
-- 
Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com

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