### On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:46:48 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> ### casually decided to expound upon "Vandy Hamidi" ### <vandy.hamidi@markettools.com> the following thoughts about "Re: ### IRR/RADB and BGP ": KO> You need to have routes registered in the IRR, but not necessarily the KO> RADB. The RADB is only a part of the IRR. Many larger ISPs and NSPs KO> run their own registries and there are several international KO> registries including APNIC and RIPE. There has been at least one free KO> database out there. I just don't remember the URL. (It's in the KO> archives, but the search may be painful.) RADB mirrors other registries and its server will happily spit out results from multiple sources/mirrors. Thus if you register in say AltDB, your provider will by default get returned your object if they query the RADB server. This of course assumes they are not doing selective source and restricting their searches to that of only RADB. You will want to confirm this with your provider. Tools such as IRRToolSet used for building prefix filters will allow the user to select on a per-query basis (in addition to global) which sources to search against when querying an IRR database. -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/