[36270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Using other provider's ASN (was Re: Sprint and peering points)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Apr 1 06:09:49 2001
Date: 1 Apr 2001 03:07:16 -0700
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Sat, 31 March 2001, Jeff Loughridge wrote:
> Sprint does not prepend its AS at public or private peering points. What
> other providers do with the AS Path at their ingress is not under our
> control.
Providers trying to "steer" traffic through their peers, upstreams, or
exchange points is nothing new. However, this caught my attention. If
Sprint isn't pre-pending its routes with Sprint's ASN, who is? It is
generally considered ill-mannered to use someone else's ASN without their
permission. Traditionally, pre-pending is done with the pre-pender's own
ASN.
If nothing else, to help track down the party when evil things happen.
