[152845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peer1/Server Beach support for BGP on dedicated servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Sat May 19 06:49:20 2012
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 03:48:48 -0700
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
> Was wondering if there's anyone from Server Beach/Peer1 here. We have a
> dedicated server with them which we primarily use for DNS. I am adding
> support for anycasting on that one but seems like Peer1 is not supporting
> BGP at all. NOC support told me that they can announce our block
> and statically pass us but cannot hear BGP announcement from our router.
> Was wondering if someone else had similar issue?
Generally, most dedicated hosting (renting/leasing the exclusive use
of a computer in their facility) outfits aren't setup to speak BGP to
individual servers/customers. Such a request is usually infrequent
enough that it doesn't warrant setting up the added hardware.
While you could have your provider announce your space for you, you'll
loose the fine-grained control over how that route gets announced once
the routing is out of your hands.
> This is important and if doesn't works then I would have to find a new
> place for dedicated server somewhere in California.
I would instead recommend looking for a colocation provider that will
host small installations (1 - 5 U), but is also savvy enough to speak
eBGP with their customers.
Cheers,
jof
