13 Aug
1998
13 Aug
'98
4:14 p.m.
| Whether or not they announce non-(Sprint)-customer routes, such as AS1? But Alex, you know that many providers would be delighted to filter out peers' routes on your behalf, as well as not announce you to their peers. Yet they still charge you money, no? One might consider the wonderful old days when UKERNA and DANTE asked ICM to stop announcing to them a large swathe of routes for various reasons. This raises an interesting diagnostic issue which some people run into from time to time when hunting down weird routing problems: how can a third party know what is being announced and thrown away (or just not selected), versus what is not being announced at all? Sean.