A Real Technical Question (RAdB)
Well I have a real operational / technical question for this list. I hope it will keep a few people from crying! :) We are needing some help and advise on route-registery stuff. Background: It looks like we will be adding customers to our network that have legacy (read pre-arin, circa '89-'93) address space. They do not wish to renumber and would like us to advertise their routes via BGP v4. What I know: Getting the routes to be announced via BGP v4 is not a big deal. We can add the correct statements to our IOS routers and bounce the session. To get these routes excepted by other providers, I need to register them with a route registery. I have choosen Merit's radb. I have created a MAINT, AS and Route, object. What I dont know(and need help with): Have I done this correctly? Can I add routes to this single location and have all (ANS, CW, et al) pick them up and add them to their configs, etc. Or, do I have to register with each registery, which would sorta defeat the purpose of a registery.??? Can anyone give me a quick Route Object / Policy 101, or point me to something for the slightly less clued :) I want to get this right and make sure I don't FUBAR things... Any sushi eating people that help will be compensated in sushi, the next time I see you (NANOG or ARIN meetings) Thanks Back to your regularly scheduled BA or is that BS ?? jmbrown@ihighway.net AS 7850
John,
Can I add routes to this single location and have all (ANS, CW, et al) pick them up and add them to their configs, etc.
Just add them to one is the short answer. The long answer is that in this case you are a CW/MCI customer it would appear, so you can just put them in that registry using CW's normal procedure. The RA database mirrors this, RIPE, ANS, CA*NET, APNIC and probably some others. For instance: diamond[amb].106$ host www.ihighway.net www.ihighway.net has address 206.29.128.12 diamond[amb].107$ whois -h whois.ra.net 206.29.128.12 route: 206.29.128.0/20 descr: iHighway-ABQ-01 origin: AS7850 remark: None notify: routing@ihighway.net mnt-by: MAINT-AS7850 changed: jmbrown@ihighway.net 981116 source: RADB route: 206.29.128.0/20 descr: IHWY-RT01-OBJ origin: AS7850 mnt-by: IHWY-MAINT-MCI changed: jmbrown@ihighway.net 971222 source: CW You will note you have the same route object registered twice, once through CW (see source: line) and once through RADB. RADB has mirrored the CW entry. The RA consider this unnecessary, though it is sometimes useful as the RADB mirroring of other databases used not to be instantaneous - i.e. took a day or so (may have been fixed). In rare circumstances (from memory where route object, AS object and AS macro had components from different databases) it used to be necessary. -- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
I should add that I also route via AS2548, AS 5673. AS2902 and AS701 will be added shortly. We are trying to have multiple exits via our Calif and New Mexico operations. At least improve them. jmbrown At 08:03 PM 11/21/98 +0000, you wrote:
John,
Can I add routes to this single location and have all (ANS, CW, et al) pick them up and add them to their configs, etc.
Just add them to one is the short answer.
The long answer is that in this case you are a CW/MCI customer it would appear, so you can just put them in that registry using CW's normal procedure. The RA database mirrors this, RIPE, ANS, CA*NET, APNIC and probably some others.
For instance:
diamond[amb].106$ host www.ihighway.net www.ihighway.net has address 206.29.128.12 diamond[amb].107$ whois -h whois.ra.net 206.29.128.12 route: 206.29.128.0/20 descr: iHighway-ABQ-01 origin: AS7850 remark: None notify: routing@ihighway.net mnt-by: MAINT-AS7850 changed: jmbrown@ihighway.net 981116 source: RADB
route: 206.29.128.0/20 descr: IHWY-RT01-OBJ origin: AS7850 mnt-by: IHWY-MAINT-MCI changed: jmbrown@ihighway.net 971222 source: CW
You will note you have the same route object registered twice, once through CW (see source: line) and once through RADB. RADB has mirrored the CW entry.
The RA consider this unnecessary, though it is sometimes useful as the RADB mirroring of other databases used not to be instantaneous - i.e. took a day or so (may have been fixed). In rare circumstances (from memory where route object, AS object and AS macro had components from different databases) it used to be necessary.
-- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
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