[137753] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Smith - Adhost)
Fri Feb 18 16:24:46 2011
From: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:24:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=zAa4T4zeTiDx3nUwdJY2WL0TSRx3ciBsTB5nS@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
"Yaoqing\(Joey\) Liu" <joey.liuyq@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: christopher.morrow@gmail.com
> [mailto:christopher.morrow@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:34 AM
> To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> Cc: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions
>=20
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> <mksmith@adhost.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry for the misfire on my last email. =A0The 206.81.80.0/23 network i=
s
> assigned to the SIX from ARIN. =A0 In general, we don't want
> > people to announce that space to the DFZ, so the three providers listed
> above are not filtering their announcements properly. =A0It is, as
> > others have said, a good idea to announce the exchange block to your
> customers, but not out to the DFZ.
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> why is it a good idea to send this to your customers? the next-hop
> info is surely only useful to your local network? done right it's even
> only relevant to the IX connected router, right? it seems wholely
> unusful to your customers. (to me at least)
I was thinking about what Leo said about tools that test each hop through a=
path. At least my downstream customers will be able to test through the S=
IX connection if I announce the /23 to them.
Mike
