Public Route-Servers
Many Internet service providers (ISPs) have route-servers installed in their networks that are freely available to the public. These route-servers can be a simple UNIX workstation that is running the GateD software or it could be a router running BGP. The purpose of a route-server is to enable outside companies (usually other ISPs) to view the current BGP route table that exists in another network. They are usually available by telnet. Once you have connected, you can execute commands on the route-server to display information from the BGP routing table contained on it.
Route-servers can be very helpful in determining whether your BGP configuration is correct if you are peering via BGP with your ISP or another company ...
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