Can you explain why paths to same host diverge?

Sat Feb 28 05:41:33 UTC 1998

> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk at bbnplanet.com>
> Subject: Re: Can you explain why paths to same host diverge?
> To: booloo at cats.ucsc.edu (Mark Boolootian)
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:11:48 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> 	[...]
> I feel obligated to ask -- is there some reason you didn't
> direct your query to Sprint, before asking NANOG? It really seems like
> this is the kind of question they should be able to answer for you,
> and diagnose the problem to some extent. I can't see a good reason to ask
> here without asking the providers in question, first.
> 	[...]

I rather suspect that you provided a much more interesting, and much
more public, answer than Mark would have received from Sprint.  Now,
if you hadn't provided such an informative answer, your question might
be a better fit.

-tjs