On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, J.D. Falk wrote:
Well, for one thing, "transit-free" doesn't mean that you can route to all the other "transit-free" providers....
Unless you do what BBN/GTE/Genuity did during the period where they phased in (or was it out?) the ex-Genuity datacenters. We found lots of traffic heading out Sprint. I recall someone else mentioning that Exodus and Above used Sprint as their "backup transit" even though all the above networks are "Tier 1". We never got a clear answer from the noc on why the then BBN would not purchase transit for itself from itself.
Out of curiousity, why is Sprint the common thread in these three datacenter network cases?
Perhaps it was the 192.0.0.0/3 entry in the old RADB that Sprint entered?
Charles
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