[84846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address Space & ASN Allocation Process
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Mon Sep 26 22:25:53 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509262114290.31533@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:25:14 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> I would recommend they register a maintainer, AS and appropriate route
> objects in the RADB or one of the many IRR mirrors. Some carriers
> build their filters based off of IRR data. That's still not a
> guarantee of global routability, but keeping their records in good
> order is a good start.
I'll second the route registry suggestion. We turned up BGP about a
year ago, and found that most of our traffic got bit-bucketed by big
edge networks without registering routes. If you don't want to pay
RADB, you can use AltDB.
--Chris
