[131527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven Olaf Kamphuis)
Tue Oct 26 16:05:50 2010
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:03:36 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@cb3rob.net>
To: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik=sddJJceLBEm4B_aXKgLGmnT12ht8w5zv_Q_v@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We also have various customers that only obtain LIR registration services
and have no network links whatsoever with us (so just PI and/or AS
registration, no transit or whatever)
which -is- what a LIR does.. operating a network has nothing to do with
being a LIR per-se.
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Blake Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:45, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Shared hosting ISPs also do not make subdelegations and generally
>> don't
>>> even uses the ips on a one-specific-customer-per-ip basis.
>>
>> But how do they multihome without an ASN?
>> If they have an ASN, how did they get it without going to an RIR and
>> paying a fee?
>>
>>
> Its not that hard to get an ASN, and all the work can be done by said ISP on
> behaf of the client, especially many years ago.
>
> The extent of one client's knowledge was to turn off a provider router if
> they were having problems, anything else was handled by us, even with the
> other ISPs of the client.
>
> -Blake
>
