[134387] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AltDB?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Jan 5 12:39:32 2011
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <816AB912-14CF-4028-853A-F0BE77D2EB09@puck.nether.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:39:21 -0500
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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On 2011-01-05, at 12:31, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 2) If you DEPEND on something for your business, it may just be "worth =
it" to:
> a) pay RADB who operates professionally
> b) use your ISP provided IRR (eg: NTT, level3, savvis, etc)=20
I generally recommend that people use the RIPE database, regardless of =
location. The main reason for that used to be that they supported IPv6 =
policy attributes before anybody else did, but that's quite possibly no =
longer a useful discriminator.
If you ever have ambitions to announce a route to a peer in Europe, =
having objects in the RIPE db can also help avoid annoyance.
Joe
