[1727] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: An interesting question from can.canet.d
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Jay)
Mon Dec 16 04:23:55 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 01:20:58 PST
From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay)
To: com-priv@psi.com
moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
> More and more often, policy routing is causing support incidents. Users,
> even Internet-literate ones, will know an address, say, "dialog.com" and
> will assume they should be able to connect to it. They end up very
> frustrated, and call their support people for help.
>
> The problem is, it's impossible to tell why traffic's not getting through.
I've only been vaguely following the discussions on this mailing list,
but this one got my attention.
I thought all the "policy routing" discussions were theoretical. Is it
true that there are now some gateways that are blocking traffic based on
the perceived commercial-ness or non-commercial-ness of the IP addresses?
Steve Jay
shj@ultra.com ...ames!ultra!shj
Ultra Network Technologies / 101 Dagget Drive / San Jose, CA 95134 / USA
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