AOL announcements (aka aggregation anyone?)

Tue Oct 20 03:59:48 UTC 1998

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Bradley Reynolds wrote:

> In their best attempts to defeat selecting AOL
> paths through ANS, AOL is announcing many (all?)
> of their specifics out sprint.  This has pretty much defeated
> my efforts to force traffic out ans.
> 
> Does anyone know why they are doing this?  Customers are complaining
> of > 1 s ping times trying to reach aol and though I don't want
> to configure the routers to appease the customers (as if) the drone
> of complaints is annoying.

*snip*

> Does anyone have insight they could share with me?  

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if it's a problem, why don't you
just filter their routes?

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