[16583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing Policy and http://rs.arin.net/ip-allocation.html
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Fullerton)
Wed May 6 14:20:52 1998
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:26:12 -0400
From: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf@samurai.com>
To: Stephen Schmidt <steve@eagle.ais.net>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805061651.LAA21656@eagle.ais.net>; from Stephen Schmidt on Wed, May 06, 1998 at 11:51:38AM -0500
On Wed, May 06, 1998 at 11:51:38AM -0500, Stephen Schmidt <steve@eagle.ais.net> wrote:
> > For the first time we have had to deal with Sprint's routing policy as
> > defined by http://www.sprint.net/filter.htm. Here is the situation.
> >
> > One of our dialup customers wants to access his website in the
> > 206.116.31.0/24 network at another provider. PSI is advertising it as a
> > /24. According to Sprint's routing policy, they do not honour anything
> > longer than a /19 in 206.0.0.0/8 .
>
> It's interesting that PSI routes it at all. While IP ownership (note the
> NON-PORTABLE below) and routing aren't necessarily interconnected, I
> suggest contacting the block's owner and seeing if they know it's
> alternately routed. If they wish, they can request that PSI un-route this
> block. However, that would break whomever is using it. The user should
> re-number into PSI space, and this issue will go away. If the user is
> multi-homed, they should investigate the adivisibility of getting a CIDR
> block which they can announce as an aggregate.
>
> My $0.02
> ___
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> 250 Albert Street, Suite 202
> Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6M1
> Canada
[snip]
PSI bought iSTAR earlier this year, so it's not really surprising that
they're routing these networks.
Bryan
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