[187445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Windstream engineers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hoyt, Michael)
Mon Feb 1 07:25:56 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Hoyt, Michael" <Michael.Hoyt@windstream.com>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 01:08:26 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Yes, of course Windstream supports RTBH, we have a standard community and h=
ave had for years, depending on which legacy AS you connect with us the tag=
you would have been given might be different. Our current AS7029 standard =
for RTBH is to tag your route(s) with 4506 and we will black hole the tagge=
d route at our edge.
As you know Windstream (like many ISP's) is a collection of legacy AS's, we=
have merged all our legacy AS's into one and now operate as only AS7029 bu=
t you might still be peering as a customer with us using one of our 12 form=
er AS's, such as Paetec AS1785, as we employed the alias knob to integrate =
our AS's to not have to "touch" every BGP customer, this is pretty standard=
practice as we work on consolidating our IP Networks.
We have been and continue to work through our standardization of our BGP po=
licy and have not yet reached all of the thousands of BGP speaking customer=
s. We have been working with our Product, Sales and Sales Engineering organ=
izations to get the word out to our customers about our *new* standard comm=
unities and policies and the fact that ultimately we would like all our BGP=
customers to peer with AS7029 and convert from using one of the many legac=
y AS's we operated under.
Please contact me directly (Michael.Hoyt@windstream.com<mailto:Michael.Hoyt=
@windstream.com>) and/or Paul Thompson (paul.thompson@windstream.com<mailt=
o:paul.thompson@windstream.com>) and we can involve your account team and w=
ork with any Windstream BGP customer to ensure you can tag your routes wit=
h our new standards and receive your desired route propagation results.
Thanks,
Mike Hoyt
VP, IP Engineering
Windstream Communications
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