Sprint and peering points

Sun Apr 1 07:45:03 UTC 2001

> I have found that Sprint is prepending their AS when sending routes to many
> of the public exchanges (example "1239 1239 20001") in order to "shift load"
> to private peer connections.

 ...

> Needless to say I am a bit pissed at Sprint for doing this and not telling
> me.  

  It's arguable that they _did_ tell you; in the truest sense,
  the BGP update.

  -alan

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> I had been a fan of Sprint until this happened.  Anyone else out there
> seeing the same problems?  Any ideas on how to cure it
> 
> Roy Engehausen
> 