[155587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRR-clueful person at 3356?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Sumby)
Fri Aug 17 11:46:35 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:45:34 +0100
From: Patrick Sumby <patrick.sumby@sohonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1T2OI6-0007al-Kb@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
L3 can be tricky with IRR especially if you have objects split across
multiple IRR databases.
This should help with what filters you want them to put on:
http://www.clarksys.com/blog/2009/09/02/using-irr-with-level3/
You can test before using:
whois -h filtergen.level3.net "RIPE::YOUR-AS-SET
-searchpath=RIPE;ARIN;RADB -recurseok -warnonly"
Regards
Patrick
On 17/08/2012 16:16, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry for the extremely broad email but I'm trying to sort out an IRR
> issue regarding automatic filter generation at Level(3) on behalf of a
> friend.
>
> The telemetry I'm getting (thirdhand and believed to originate from
> first line support) suggests that both Level(3)'s direct customer and
> any downstreams of that customer need to be in the same IRR component.
> If true this would be a rather startling shortcoming of their filter
> generation software and at odds with the whole point of having
> multiple components to the IRR system.
>
> Anyone got any pointers or help? Email to rr@level3.net has not
> gotten us anywhere, but I was not the one who sent it and can't
> guarantee that the right questions were asked.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -r
>
>