On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers.
AFAIK, Level3 and C&W. I have to keep RADB entries (actually altdb, and c&w's own) up to date in order for each of them to accept our routes and our BGP customers' routes.
Overall it wasn't the best solution IMHO for a couple of reasons:
- there was nothing to keep us from making bogus entries in the RADB - filters were only updated once a day making changes slow
OTOH, they don't have to pay someone to answer and respond to email sent to bgp-admin. They won't accept routes you accidentally leak to them. Is it secure? Not really. Is it cheap, reliable automation, I suspect so.
This is not meant as a complaint toward Verio - I'm simply trying to decide why we should go to the added expense of entering our routes in a RADB. To date I have seen no operational difference between using RADB and not using
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