Randy Bush et al

Fri Sep 12 06:49:03 UTC 1997

And we are trying to convince the world that we actually work
together to solve issues?  No wonder our friend Bob still has
material...  this is better than last night's 2 hour 90210
special.
> 
> Well.  After getting back from a trip I find, what?  That Mr. Bush 
> has a bug up his ass.   Bottom line:
> 
> - We do default route.  Into a Sprint T3 that we pay for.  :-)
> 
> - We do not pass no-next-hop-self routes - Check around, if someone 
> was as bright as they think they are it would be obvious.
> 
> - We only peered with Verio in the first place becuase someone other 
> than Randy contacted us
> 
> - We formerly sent a lot of traffic to Verio because it's customers 
> love porn, and we have several rather large web farms downstream.
> 
> The number listed in whois is bad, sorry, it happens.  But the number 
> on our web site is not.  
> 
> When there is a problem and we are involved, I say so.  There was no 
> problem here and we won't miss Verio peering one bit.  
> 
> Vinny
> vbono at comstor.com
> 888-624-8700 NOC
> 702-802-0222 ext 3148 voice
> 
> 
> BTW: Below is the "snotty" message that was sent to our 
> NOC and it's reply.  Who was snottier than who?
> 
> 
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Date:          Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:34:58 -0400
> From:          Matt Luebke <mluebke at mclean.mai.net>
> To:            Randy Bush <randy at verio.net>
> Cc:            noc at verio.net, noc at mai.net
> Subject:       Re: you have been depeered
> 
> 
> 
> Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > your peering at mae-east is very unacceptable.  the phone number in whois is
> > answered by a modem.  so you have been de-peered with 2914.
> >
> > randy
> 
>   Our peering at mae-east is very acceptable to us. However we find that Verio
> brings nothing to our table. Thank you and Goodbye.
> 
> Matt
>