[152848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peer1/Server Beach support for BGP on dedicated servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sat May 19 14:20:02 2012
From: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <4FB7C832.6060106@rollernet.us>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 11:19:24 -0700
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Any recommendations of such?
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-Bill
On May 19, 2012, at 9:20, "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 5/19/12 3:48 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com> wrot=
e:
>>> 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 supportin=
g
>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> ~Seth
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