It's not a dispute, it's a dollar$ decision on behalf of Sprint and/or MFN. "Hmmm, I'm getting paid by 6939 but not by 3356. I'll send my traffic through 6939 by increasing my local preference to them." Pete Templin Senior Staff Engineer TexLink Communications (210) 892-4183 pete.templin@texlink.com -----Original Message----- From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:spork@inch.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:24 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: OT: BGP questions

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote:

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(just look at AS8059, which is still sucking down most traffic via 6939 rather than 3356, even with all that silly prepending)...

Found an interesting one. Sprint no longer has a "full" looking glass, just this: http://oxide.sprintlink.net/cgi-bin/glass.pl But it shows Sprint reaching 8059 via MFN, even with the prepends. Is there a Sprint/Level3 peering dispute that I'm not aware of? Might someone from Sprint comment on this privately? Thanks, Charles