[130412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Sat Oct 2 13:35:40 2010
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1010021256360.5148@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:05:24 +0430
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We received our ASN in 2004 with a justification of "intend to multihome."
Jeff
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote:
>
>> It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after
>> hair pulling, head banging on desk, and
>> i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we figure=
d
>> out how to work around the circular "You need to have two upstreams firs=
t
>> before we will assign an AS" rule but providers can't/won't peer with yo=
u
>> without one in the first place reality.
>
> It's been a while since I've applied for an ASN...but used to be you just
> put on the form that you've ordered connectivity from multiple providers
> with the intent of multihoming, and that was good enough for ARIN. =A0If
> that's no longer good enough, I would think any understanding provider wo=
uld
> let you setup the peering connection first, assign it a /30, and then wai=
t
> for you to get your ASN to do the BGP part.
>
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