[132804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: regional ASN's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Dec 1 16:57:04 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4CF6C194.4060906@brightok.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:56:49 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 12/1/2010 3:37 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>=20
>> Or just have disparate networks using the same ASN. Works fine.
>>=20
>> Why waste ASNs and try to explain to others how asX,Y,Z, etc., are =
all the same company?
>=20
> I dislike the problem of routes not being accepted with my ASN in it. =
There's workarounds, but they are all ugly.
Having islands which point default is not ugly. They are probably =
pointing default anyway.
If not, typing "nei $FOO allowas-in" is also not ugly, IMHO.
But your network, your decision. Mine runs fine like that.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
