On Fri, 19 May 2000, Daniel Senie wrote:
I'd like to see sites which filter provide a looking glass or similar so that other providers can quickly and efficiently debug routing issues, and also some known place where those providers doing filtering can be listed, along with test hosts which can be traced to for testing whether there are routing problems or not.
Several folks will tell me I'm dreaming (or smoking something), no doubt.
Dan
Some providers are VERY paranoid about people seeing what their routing table looks like. I requested that one of our upstreams provide a looking-glass and their reply was "The LG code requires that we open up RSH on the routers. No Way!" So... I wrote looking-glass code that uses telnet. I provided it to the provider in question. Still no looking-glass nearly a year later. Oh well. John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc.