Isn't is considered widely to be bad form to announce exchange-point address space? *192.41.177.0/24 ASPath: 6347 1239 1800(IGP) Weight: 0 Community: 13944:6347 Last update: Sun Jul 16 21:06:37 2000 SURAnet (NET-MAE-EAST) 8400 Baltimore Boulevard College Park, MD 20740 Netname: MAE-EAST Netnumber: 192.41.177.0 Coordinator: SURAnet (SURA-NOC-ARIN) noc@SURA.NET (301) 982-3214 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: SOL.SURA.NET 128.167.1.100 SOL.SURA.NET 128.167.1.100 TRANTOR.UMD.EDU 128.8.10.14 NS.SESQUI.NET 128.241.0.84 NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3 Record last updated on 08-Jan-1997. Database last updated on 17-Jul-2000 06:24:11 EDT. I ask because... traceroute to mae-east.fnsi.net (192.41.177.11), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 Gigabit-3.Columbus.EnterZone.Net (209.41.244.1) 0.626 ms 0.763 ms 0.820 ms 2 64.241.88.6 (64.241.88.6) 16.305 ms 16.045 ms 16.456 ms 3 64.241.88.65 (64.241.88.65) 300.996 ms 16.153 ms 16.151 ms 4 sl-gw23-chi-6-1-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.218.241) 17.290 ms 18.776 ms 17.437 ms 5 sl-bb13-chi-0-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.45) 17.401 ms 16.817 ms 17.426 ms 6 sl-bb11-chi-5-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.62) 18.372 ms 16.851 ms 19.382 ms 7 sl-bb11-atl-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.34) 30.004 ms 30.534 ms 30.174 ms 8 sl-bb10-atl-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.12.17) 31.008 ms 29.573 ms 30.208 ms 9 sl-bb21-rly-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.197) 43.693 ms 45.228 ms 43.818 ms 10 sl-bb10-rly-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.25.6) 49.683 ms 50.052 ms 50.589 ms 11 sl-bb4-dc-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.154) 42.808 ms 42.244 ms 43.823 ms 12 sl-e2-mae-4-1-0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.10.94) 45.721 ms 71.589 ms 43.878 ms 13 mae-east.fnsi.net (192.41.177.11) 34.915 ms * 34.852 ms Um, would anyone else consider this to be a strange thing since we peer with FNSI directly? *206.220.243.0/24 ASPath: 6347 701 3549(IGP) Weight: 0 Community: 13944:6347 Last update: Sun Jul 16 21:10:59 2000 Ameritech ATM Exchange Point (NETBLK-AADSNET2) 85 W. Algonquin Road Suite 110 Arlington Heights, IL 60005 US Netname: AADSNET1 Netblock: 206.220.240.0 - 206.220.243.255 Coordinator: Cnota, Mark (MC386-ARIN) mcnota@AMERITECH.NET 847-952-2920 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: DNS.MERIT.NET 198.108.1.42 DNS2.MERIT.NET 198.109.36.3 DNS3.MERIT.NET 198.108.130.5 Record last updated on 24-Jun-1999. Database last updated on 17-Jul-2000 06:24:11 EDT. *198.32.136.0/24 Description: SAVVIS TRANSIT ASPath: 6347 1239 2685(IGP) Weight: 0 Community: 13944:6347 Last update: Sun Jul 16 21:08:10 2000 Exchange Point Blocks (NET-EP-) PO 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 US Netname: NET-EP-1 Netblock: 198.32.0.0 - 198.32.255.255 Coordinator: Manning, Bill (WM110-ARIN) bmanning@KAROSHI.COM (310) 322 8102 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: DOT.EP.NET 198.32.2.10 NS.ISI.EDU 128.9.128.127 FLAG.EP.NET 198.32.4.13 Record last updated on 10-May-1999. Database last updated on 17-Jul-2000 06:24:11 EDT. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc