[4454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: advisory attribute in IRR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Tue Sep 17 01:38:57 1996
To: "Mr. Jeremy Hall" <jhall@rex.isdn.net>
cc: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca (Marc Slemko), nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:55:26 CDT."
<199609152255.RAA04030@rex.isdn.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:34:15 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199609152255.RAA04030@rex.isdn.net>, "Mr. Jeremy Hall" writes:
> -->
> -->Can anyone give me a pointer to information on what the advisory attribute
> -->in the IRR does and who pays any attention to that attribute?
> -->
> -->Thanks.
> -->
>
> [nostats.Reston.mci.net]
> route: 198.79.88.0/21
> descr: ISDNET-NET
> origin: AS279
> withdrawn: 941122
> advisory: AS690 1:3561
> notify: nacr@sura.net
> mnt-by: SURA
> changed: sherk@sura.net 950517
> source: MCI
>
> IMHO this means that when telling AS690 about this route to prefer 3561
> as an exit point.
> Is this correct?
It means no one deleted the advisory field after the field's use was
depricated in October 1995.
Curtis
