[109835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: _65000_ in as-path - paging 8544, 16229, 37958
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Dec 11 08:44:44 2008
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <55CBCEB0-8FD8-499F-B898-B1935C3F4DFD@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:44:28 -0500
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 10 Dec 2008, at 16:20, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Cvetan Ivanov wrote:
>> Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>>
>>> Is there some reason why 65000 is especially problematic ?
>>
>> 65000 and above are private as numbers and should not be seen in
>> the global table.
>
> 64512 & above.
Indeed, the reference is RFC 1930 section 10, which says:
10. Reserved AS Numbers
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following block of AS numbers for private use (not to be advertised
on the global Internet):
64512 through 65535
Joe
