Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> writes:
If pizzahut wants to reach a wider community, they can ask their provider to register their route in the RADB. From a routing standpoint all it needs is the prefix, prefix length, and the home-AS.
Right! Case in point that there is some benefit you may get from registereing in the routing registry. Another benefit would be more meaningful output from tools like prtraceroute: --- reif!dfk 95> pt 192.112.170.243 ** WARNING ** Destination AS unknown for www.pizzahut.com (192.112.170.243) ** WARNING ** Policy information is not possible - setting to "?" traceroute with AS and policy additions [Apr 20 09:56:34 UTC] from AS3333 reif.ripe.net (193.0.0.131) to ??? www.pizzahut.com (192.112.170.243) 1 AS3333 insomnia 193.0.0.142 [?] 3 2 2 ms 2 AS3333 Amsterdam 193.0.0.222 [?] 28 3 3 ms 3 AS1128 Amsterdam1.Dante.net 192.87.4.35 [?] 43 10 5 ms 4 AS1804 icm-dante.icp.net 194.41.0.18 [?] 125 95 87 ms 5 AS1800 icm-dc-1-E4/2.icp.net 192.157.65.73 [?] 141 90 102 ms 6 AS1800 Boone1.VA.ALTER.NET 192.157.65.227 [?] 246 239 232 ms 7 AS701 Dallas1.TX.ALTER.NET 137.39.128.7 [?] 251 263 ms 8 AS701 Pizzahut-gw.ALTER.NET 137.39.227.226 [?] 321 318 302 ms 9 ??? www.pizzahut.com 192.112.170.243 [?] 312 315 298 ms AS Path followed: AS3333 AS1128 AS1804 AS1800 AS701 ??? AS3333 = RIPE NCC AS1128 = EuropaNET (Amsterdam and Geneva PoPs) AS1804 = ICMNET-6 AS1800 = ICM-Atlantic AS701 = ALTERNET-AS ---