[135100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Single AS Number for multiple prefixes in different country
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel de Nostredame)
Mon Jan 17 18:30:02 2011
In-Reply-To: <1295298386.2800.9.camel@home>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:15:10 -0800
From: Michel de Nostredame <d.nostra@gmail.com>
To: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr> wrote:
>> I believe my ISP did not intentionally filter out my routes,
>> but it more like default behavior as described in document.
>> Setting up default-route on both of my border routers addressed the needs.
>
> I feel, asking to recieve (and use) default route appears "cleaner" than
> hacking routing protocol ways. Unless, one does as you just did. Right?
>
Yes, asking ISP to send out default-route via BGP sessions
will be better then manually setup one. A default-route from
dynamic routing protocol can disappear properly in case something
wrong over the link, while manual one could possibly create a
black hole.
BTW, this thread was talking about the use of single-AS in different
sites. I think it is no doubt doable.
--
Michel~
