[chgs]

> It is, generally speaking, not possible to call AT&T and say "Hey, when I try to ping one of your subscribers in California from a Level3 circuit in New York, I'm hitting a routing loop."

I’ve reported similar things to my isp and they’ve changed their lock prefs to send the traffic via a different peer and bypass the problem.

[d1sxeyes]

There are more private subscribers that pretend they know what they’re talking about than actually do. Probably makes sense to ignore a good proportion of the nonsense people throw at ISP L1 teams.