[ris-int] Fwd: Anycast experiment on RIS beacons
Arife Vural arife at ripe.net
Mon Sep 4 09:57:27 CEST 2006
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:14:12AM +0200, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > Henk Uijterwaal wrote: > >What do we think about this lease a beacon request? > >[...] > >>We have acquired an AS number and a prefix (a /22) for this purpose > >>and would like to use some or all of your RRCs as anycast servers > >>by advertising our prefix through them. > > This doesn't seem like a great idea. I do agree with Lorenzo, implementing such a thing will put us in difficult situation with our peers. It would be difficult to explain somebody's AS. > > I doubt that our agreements with our peers cover announcing prefixes > that do not belong to the RIS, providing transit to other ASes, and > forwarding traffic. Also, the prepending work with HK university has > shown me that many of our transit peers filter on ^12654$, i.e. don't > even accept prepending of our own AS. > > If they want to do this, since they already have an AS and a prefix, why > don't they get someone to give them transit for the duration of the > experiment? Probably a better solution for them. > > > > Cheers, > Lorenzo > > -- > Lorenzo Colitti http://www.colitti.com/lorenzo/ > -- Arife Vural SED, RIPE NCC
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