Joshua Goodall wrote:
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Graham Burke wrote:
Hi just a quick question We have been recently been allocated our /19 however RIPE have assigned us only the first 700 address this I believe is pretty standard procedure.
However our connectivity supplier will not advertise our routes unless we have our full /19 assigned and registered with RIPE, obvioulsy as the range is too small.
Graham,
Your transit provider is almost certainly in error. Unless you are asking them to route individual prefixes to places other than your network, it is simply a matter of them announcing your /19 at their border.
Hiya, The problem the connectivity provider has is that the fact that the whole /19 is assigned to nsl is not reflected in the RIPE database, the allocated /23 and bit of /24 are indeed there however the /19 is not. The providor is meerly trying to make sure they do not announce other peoples address space by checking the database to ensure that this /19 does indeed belong to NSL. Not that NSL are not to be trusted, far from it, but a simple error in an email and no RIPE checks can mean that a network starts announcing bits of other peoples address space :) -- Leigh Porter INS