[58881] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: About the address allocation convention between ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bridgham)
Wed Jun 4 14:10:44 2003
From: "Robert Bridgham" <rbridgham@hvdata.net>
To: "Teng Fei" <tfei@ipanema.ecs.umass.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:10:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0306022337450.10423-100000@ipanema.ecs.umass.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Teng,
You can also use whois to determin who owns the /30 between the hop in
question. If ISPx comes up as the holder of the netblock in the
registration then that traceroute result is comming from ISPx. Hopefully
this helps!
- Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Teng Fei
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:11 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: About the address allocation convention between ISPs
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a question about the convention of address allocation between ISPs.
> If a smaller ISP tries to establish connection with its provider, does
> this small ISP configure one of the interface on its boarder router using
> an IP address obtained from the provider, or it is the other way around,
> that is, the provider uses one of the IP address belongs to the customer
> to configure the provider's boarder router?
>
> I have this question because I am trying to identify the link between two
> organizations from traceroute measurements. How the addresses are
> allocated will affect the identification of the inter-domain link by
> exactly one hop.
>
> I am not sure if there is such a convention at all, or the address
> assignment is randomly decided according to the agreement between the
> customer and the provider?
>
> Since I know there are many seasoned network professionals on this mailing
> list, I think it might be a proper question to ask here. Would anyone
> kindly be willing to share your experience? Thank you very much!
>
> Sincerely
>
> Teng
>
>
