On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:46:04PM -0600, Pete Ashdown wrote:
What follows is a list I compiled of organizations at PAIX who peer without restrictions. Restrictions are "requirements" like nationwide [...]
Organization IP address AS# Email contact
AboveNet 198.32.176.11 6461 noc@above.net Exodus 198.32.176.15 3967 peering@exodus.net Global Crossing 198.32.176.29 3549 peering@gblx.net
These are the only large service provider networks I see listed. AboveNet would probably peer with a bum on the street outside PAIX if he could speak BGP, but AFAIK GBLX's requirements were at least 3 locations and bi-costal at a minimium. If I remember correctly Exodus is also slightly picky about its "ghetto peers", probably falling somewhere the middle of the other two. The rest of the list seems to basically fall into the categories of other "tier 2" regionals (Hurricane Electric, Maxim, etc), content looking for a way to save money on their transit bill (Hotmail, EA, etc), Asian networks who have a circuit to the US but aren't willing to cross it and will take any peers they can get (SingTel, KDD, etc), and misc small networks with little overwhelming value. Seems almost all the larger service providers are requiring at least bi-costal these days. You also missed a couple of the email contacts, abov is peering@ and lightning is not noc@cp.net :P -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)