This is all very interesting information. It seems at-home recently did the same thing with us, as they stopped all transit and were not on CIX, basically forcing us to peer with them. Is this the route to get peering with the big players that will now evolve? Forced peering due to unreachability? Rob
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Bob Collie wrote:
From recent discussions on this list, I thought that the reason that DIGEX could not reach AGIS sites (and vice-versa) was because of AGIS's new peering policy, and not because of a circuit disconnection.
(from http://agisgate.agis.net/outage.htm) Problems Reaching DIGEX -- UPDATED 10:40 EST October 29, 1996
Digex has disconnected their ANS circuit. We previously saw Digex routes only through ANS (our direct connection with Digex has been gone for a few months now). Since Digex is at too few NAPs to peer with AGIS, and they are not at the CIX, we see no routes from them.
This is inaccurate. DIGEX <-> AGIS peering sessions were up until 2-3 weeks ago. I believe DIGEX informed AGIS that their ANS transit was going to go away and it would cause connectivity problems if AGIS took down the peering sessions.
-dorian