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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IRR/RADB and BGP
> 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
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