[ris-int] Fwd: Anycast experiment on RIS beacons
Henk Uijterwaal henk at ripe.net
Mon Sep 4 15:07:40 CEST 2006
I agree, I'll write this to them. Henk At 09:57 04/09/2006, Arife Vural wrote: >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(at)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.amsterdamned.org/~henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1160438400 + 381600 = 1160820000.
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