Re: How many ISPs are out there?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:40:50 EDT, up () 3 am  said:
>                         My understanding is that as long as you get a
> block from former class C or "the swamp", you should be visible
> everywhere.  We recently requested, and got a /21 from 65/8 from Sprint.
> A phone call and some pleading got them to change that to 208.8.16.0/21

Having a prefix that happens to be visible from everywhere is different
than having a prefix that belongs to an ASN.  Your mail was unclear as
to whether your /21 was its own seperate ASN or not.

I have to wonder why a phone call and pleading were needed to get
it out of 65/8 - was your /21 being filtered or hidden in some way?
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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