[93718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need BGP clueful contact at Global Crossing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Thu Dec 14 20:06:21 2006
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:01:16 -0800
From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: "Lasher, Donn" <DLasher@newedgenetworks.com>
Cc: NANOG@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <DEB70BE9B019B14EBE4D34B2FD2E74102313381D@jabba.ad.newedgenetworks.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 12/14/06, Lasher, Donn <DLasher@newedgenetworks.com> wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2006 09:47:46 -0500, Michael A. Patton <MAP@map-ne.com> wrote:
> >> If there are any BGP clueful contacts at Global Crossing listening
> (or
> >> if someone listening wants to forward this to them :-), I would
> >> appreciate your getting in touch.
>
> >Out of curiousity, why do you think anyone here on NANOG would be
> willing to bother the
> >clueful contacts they know at provider (X) based on an email like this?
> It's absolutely
> >content-free.
>
> Having been on both sides of an issue like this one, I'd much rather see
> polite requests like the original requestor, rather than a 10 page dump
> on why provider X is severely borked. Good netiquette, seems to me.
10 page dump is excessive; but a one or two line
"I'm seeing bad advertisements from AS ZZZZ at the following peering
location" goes a long way to explain what the need and urgency is
around the issue.
