[57745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low AS - Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Apr 21 12:58:09 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:51:27 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Dwight Ringdahl <dwightringdahl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <004501c3081d$2b347dc0$6401a8c0@m22374.ecpm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:46:19AM -0400, Dwight Ringdahl wrote:
>
> Nope strictly for marketing reasons... ASN has almost no place in BGP
> selection.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: dwightringdahl@yahoo.com
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Low AS - Number
>
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:10:58 EDT, Dwight Ringdahl <dwightringdahl@yahoo.com>
> said:
> > Just a quick FYI, I am no longer with WebUseNet ASN 19151. I'll be
> starting
> > to build a new network over the next several months. Does anyone have a
> low
> > ASN I can buy/transfer as to not have one up in the 30,000s...
>
> Lemme guess - not only do some places filter 69/8, they bogon-filter AS
http://puck.nether.net/~jared/papers/69-paper.html
> numbers
> over 32K as well? Or is there some other reason?
I can't find it right now, but I believe there is a regex out
there that some people may be using to drop unallocated asn blocks
in as-path filtering. Considering the following, it's not too
shocking to understand why people would want to drop such announcements:
http://www.cymru.com/BGP/asnbogusrep.html
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>
>
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