Ed - Excellent. Thank-you. Sean. - -- | From ejk@nitrous.digex.net Mon Sep 25 01:41:25 1995 | From: Ed Kern <ejk@nitrous.digex.net> | To: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) | Cc: kai@belcom.net (Kai), dorian@CIC.Net, avg@sprintlink.net, baldwin@SDD.COMSAT.COM, bertolini@computel.com, concaj@belcom.net, donagm@belcom.net, | ilya@phri.nyu.edu, insc@sprintlink.net, ken@belcom.net, khalfk@belcom.net, ladycom@computel.com, nanog@MERIT.EDU, noc@digex.net, smd@sprint.net, | susan.evans@SPRINT.SPRINT.COM | Subject: Re: 204.82.160.0/22 invisible | | | Some additions | | | On September 25, you wrote: | > Poking at this futher, Sprint is announcing 204.82.160/22; Digex is | > behind ANS; this route is not in the RADB; and since ANS insists on all | > routes being in the RADB, they are not accepting it, so Digex is not | > seeing it. | | Ive statically nailed up this route to sprintlink, for the week of | this event. It will be removed either when the week is up, or as soon | as sprintlink/sean requests its removal. | | | 206.82.160/22 for the record. | > | > Fix: Either get ANS to not insist on all routes being in the RADB or | > submit an update to the RADB & wait for ANS to regenerate their | > configs. | | While the RADB is flawed (overloaded to the tune of about 30k routes | and not including routes such as this one) I dont think ans is quite | ready to hang it up... | | so those of us who rely on the RADB, or (in my case) rely on transit | provider based on the radb, we'll have to take these one at a time. | | | Hopefully without the "anti-trust, im going to sue you, guess I have | to be the martyr" bullshit. | | > | > Kai: Please don't widly accuse folks before poking into the facts. | > --asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) | | | and as to this | | >> Correct. I have other networks in 204, so above was a typo. Also correct: | >> he (rather cryptically) said Sprint wouldn't filter outgoing (hence | >> customer-owned) routes, but he encouraged OTHER providers to do it like | >> Sprint: filter incoming routes by the rules anounced: this has the same | >> effect, but now Sean could point at Digex (should they employ such a | >> filter) "I didn't do it, man!"... | | Ill have you know that the filter list im working on looks nothing like | the sprintlink one in any way..least not after I took those ugly comments | out ;) | | Ed | |