On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:30:03PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
kai@pac-rim.net (Kai Schlichting) writes:
Anyone here who is on the Vienna/London/Amsterdam exchange(s) and who is seeing what is alleged here: above.net leaking and/or flapping routes that are not their own ?
Abovenet receives /16's from a customer, who is the upstream of Manawatu. Abovenet duly advertises these /16's to its other customers, and its peers.
Abovenet also blocks all traffic to/from ORBS, due to AUP violations.
If Abovenet considers ORBS's business an AUP violation, why is it accepting the advertisements at all, other than to hijack traffic for the netblock they dislike?
The /16s that Paul referred to are aggregate supernets that cover many other New Zealand networks than just Manawatu/ORBS. Manawatu's provider is advertising longer-prefix routes specific to Manawatu to other transit providers than AboveNet, precisely to draw traffic around the blackhole. I have no opinions on the veracity of AboveNet's claims, or the validity of Alan's crusade, but the implication in your paragraph above is misleading, IMHO. Joe