[152847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peer1/Server Beach support for BGP on dedicated servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat May 19 12:20:42 2012
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 09:20:02 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAHsqw9sLO+SupL8v+rj7sj-A2mipbr5h9FRD59ZbgyKvRu1RUQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/19/12 3:48 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> 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.
>
There are places that can do such requests easily and quickly, but
they're typically smaller outfits that don't have thousands of customers
doing cookie-cutter packages.
~Seth
