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That brings up an interesing point. My biggest fear was that one of my other customers could possible be closer to me that the ISP that provides the primary link and it would cause them to favor the backup link because of AS path. I think they are going to fight me on this and telling them to multihome to their original ISP would probably be frowned upon at this point. I was hoping that there was an RFC for multihoming that I could use to bail myself out.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [email protected] wrote: > I have a client that wants us to advertise an IP block assigned by another > ISP. I know that the best practice is to have them request an AS number > from ARIN and peer with us, etc. However, I cannot find any information > that states as law. Does anyone know of a document or RFC that states > this? It's not 'law' per se, but having the customer originate their own announcements is definitely the Right Way to go. Some providers take a pretty dim view of seeing chunks of their address space show up in advertisements originating from someone who isn't one of their customers. It can make troubleshooting connectivity problems for that customer (from the provider's point of view) very painful, i.e. "Hey, this AS, who isn't one of our customers, is hijacking IP space assigned to one of our customers!" The provider could then contact your host's upstream(s) and ask them to drop said announcement under the impression they're stopping someone from doing something bad. Also, if some network out there aggregates prefixes in an aggessive/odd manner, the disjoint announcement, and the reachability info it contains could be washed out of their routing tables, causing connectivity problems. Standard caveats about the block being a /24 or larger also apply. jms
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