Yeay, verily. We would be happy to pay fees within reason. The SSH VPN takes a lot of maintenance and handing it over to a SysAdmin has been troublesome since it is a very non-standard means of doing this. Open-source SSH VPNs are a great hack, but [lack of] maintainability is the downfall of ALL hacks.
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Li [mailto:tony1@home.net] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:04 AM To: rmeyer@mhsc.com Cc: 'Alex Rubenstein'; 'Randy Bush'; doug@safeport.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
It's a PITA and not the cleanest of methods, but until all the backbones quit filtering /24s it's what we have to do. The other alternative (and we've considered it) is to obtain a much larger space directly from ARIN and burn the unused space. Then we could remove the last bit of static routing and use BGP4 as we should.
Wouldn't it be nice if backbones got around to simply charging for annoucements and quit this arbitrary filtering?
Tony