[59228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRR/RADB and BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jun 19 18:40:30 2003
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:39:54 -0700
To: Vandy Hamidi <vandy.hamidi@markettools.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Our new ISP is asking that I create a maintainer object in the
> RADB and associated AS/Routes for us to be about to eBGP peer.
congrats. you got a quality provider who cares about good safe
routing practice.
> Is this just so they can dynamically build their prefix/as-path
> lists?
i would hope they do.
> Why would I need to do this and what advantages are there. Cost
> to register with RADB is $250/year and I want to understand it
> before I shell out.
the providers i know who want irr registration provide their own
registry for their customers. if yours does not, there are free
registries around.
randy
