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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There are a variety of commercials and people/personalities
involved here, but I’m not sure how much of it is relevant to the issue
at point. The facts are simple:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Alumina was a transit customer of AINS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>There was a billing dispute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>AINS disconnected Alumina (which they are entitled to do so)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>AINS started advertising Alumina’s ranges into the routing
table in a bid to disrupt their multi-homed connectivity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Do any commercials, people, history, etc or so on, matter in
this situation we are in? I am pretty sure most people agree that,
whatever the reasons might be, or justification used, what AINS are doing is
wrong. If it somehow is deemed that is acceptable in any way, then this
will happen a lot more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Imagine if you were multi-homed with Telstra and Optus and you
had a billing dispute with one of them, and they disconnected you... and the one
who disconnected you started announcing your ranges to disrupt your other
connection.... If that happened with big names like that, this would be front
page IT news.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Sorry if you thought I was keeping things from you, but I was
concentrating on what was relevant to the situation. If you want more
detail I am more than happy to go into it off-list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>...Skeeve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>Skeeve Stevens, CEO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>skeeve@eintellego.net / www.eintellego.net<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve ; facebook.com/eintellego<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>eintellego - The Experts that the Experts call<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#002060'>- Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade - Arista - Allied
Telesis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Scott Howard [mailto:scott@doc.net.au] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 12 December 2010 10:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Skeeve Stevens<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Urgent - Pacnet NOC contact (with BGP clue)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Skeeve Stevens <<a
href="mailto:Skeeve@eintellego.net">Skeeve@eintellego.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>No Curtis went on to Blitz which bought Koala's remains and
they went bust as well.<br>
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Then he went to AINS, and then he actually went to Alumina, my customer, who
threw him out (for various reasons) and he went back to AINS...<o:p></o:p></p>
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And you didn't think that fact was worth mentioning earlier?<br>
<br>
How much more is there to this story that you haven't passed on?<br>
<br>
Scott.<br>
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