[59233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRR/RADB and BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Thu Jun 19 19:14:48 2003
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:14:16 -0500
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: Vandy Hamidi <vandy.hamidi@markettools.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Vandy Hamidi wrote:
>
> 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.
> This is the first time I've been asked by a provider to do this for
> something as simple as peering to advertise a couple /24's.
>
> I've peered with ATT, Sprint, UUnet, Qwest, Savvis, SBC, and Internap
> in the past and never had to do anything but have a valid ASN provided
> by ARIN.
Hey, wait a minute! You've peered with SBCIS and not set up an
aut-num and route objects in the RADB? For shame! That's our policy,
too. Get with it!
> Is this just so they can dynamically build their prefix/as-path lists?
It's to avoid having Sprint mocked by L3.
> 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.
Use ARIN's IRR or AltDB, then. But wouldn't it be nice to support the
RADB, and our good friends at Merit? Heck, you could donate a few grand
-- I'm sure they'd accept it.
Peter E. Fry
