On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:16:41PM +0000, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
Typical response: You're not our customer, who are you? I'm Omachonu Ogali with XYZ Networks, and I'd like to speak to a network engineer regarding a routing problem. Hum. I take ~4 calls each day for things that are some other ISPs problem. Folks are -politely- told that the issues are either with their ISP or someone upstream of their ISP. When they get pushy, I offer them a service contract. 99.999% (hey Sean, there are your five 9's!) of them then choose to work with thier ISPs. I suspect that you have more than enough clue to never have to give me a call, but if you do, be prepared to be re-directed... :)
I hope you pay better attention on the phone then you do on lists. :)
The point was calling up the upstream of the AS who is generating bogus routes. The upstream of the caller is not at all involved.
But the upstream of the caller is involved. They passed the route(s) on, no?
--bill
Not necessarily, I could be the victim of a leak calling up an ISP to report it. Or some bored person connected to route-server.* constantly checking prefixes. -- Omachonu Ogali missnglnk@informationwave.net http://www.informationwave.net