verio arrogance

Mon Jul 15 22:10:23 UTC 2002

Unless you are in "the swamp" - the old Class C, where I believe that 
they do accept /24's.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks

Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> 
>>http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter
>>
>>It seems if I were one of their customers they would accept my
>>66.11.168/23 announcement and re-announce it to their peers, but they
>>won't accept it from any of their peers.
>>
> 
> As a customer you pay them to announce your /23, as a peer you don't. 
> Their line of logic is that if you are a peer of theirs you don't have to 
> accept that /23 either.
> 
> 
>>Announcing a covering /20 along with the regional more specifics I have
>>will only serve to increase the size of the routing table for most
>>backbones, and lead to sub optimal routing in some cases since I'm
>>announcing the more specifics due to geographical diversity.
>>
> 
> Announce the /20 to your transit providers, and the more specifics with 
> no-export. Verio's position is that they don't want to or need to hear 
> your /23s unless you are a customer, and for the most part they are right.
> 
> 

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