On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 12:16:50AM +0000, Michael Shields wrote:
In article <3.0.3.32.19980409083628.03cebbe8@mailhost.ip-plus.net>, philip bridge <bridge@ip-plus.net> wrote:
That is of course laudible. But the point has to be made that AS8584 is in Israel. In an environment when a small ISP in a small country can cause a lot of damage to the global Internet, a way has to be found to efficiently propogate this knowledge far and wide.
I don't understand this point. Would you have been happier if they were a small ISP in the United States? How about India? Finland? Why does it matter that AS8584 is in Israel?
I believe that the implication was that: 1) they're not directly connected to any of the major _US_ backbones, and 2) they're on the other end of a fairly thin hose. And they can _still_ hose things this badly. This speaks not well of the architecture involved. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com