Question

Joshua Goodall wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Graham Burke wrote:
> 
> > Hi just a quick question
> > We have been recently been allocated our /19 however RIPE have
> > assigned us only the first 700 address this I believe is pretty
> > standard procedure.
> >
> > However our connectivity supplier will not advertise our routes unless
> > we have our full /19 assigned and registered with RIPE, obvioulsy as
> > the range is too small.
> 
> Graham,
> 
> Your transit provider is almost certainly in error. Unless you are asking
> them to route individual prefixes to places other than your network, it is
> simply a matter of them announcing your /19 at their border.

Hiya,

The problem the connectivity provider has is that the fact that the
whole
/19 is assigned to nsl is not reflected in the RIPE database, the
allocated
/23 and bit of /24 are indeed there however the /19 is not.

The providor is meerly trying to make sure they do not announce other
peoples
address space by checking the database to ensure that this /19 does
indeed
belong to NSL.

Not that NSL are not to be trusted, far from it, but a simple error in
an email
and no RIPE checks can mean that a network starts announcing bits of
other peoples
address space :)

--
Leigh Porter
INS