[112157] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Thu Feb 19 17:19:11 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:19:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
To: Bruce Robertson <bruce@greatbasin.net>
In-Reply-To: <15914959.1671235081933607.JavaMail.zaid@turing-2.local>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN.
Zaid
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From: "Bruce Robertson" <bruce@greatbasin.net>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?
Is the ARIN registry free, then?
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote:
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>> Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects
>> (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be
>> verified with a whois.
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> If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry
> (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with
> radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees.
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