On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:14:12AM +0200, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
What do we think about this lease a beacon request? [...]
We have acquired an AS number and a prefix (a /22) for this purpose and would like to use some or all of your RRCs as anycast servers by advertising our prefix through them.
This doesn't seem like a great idea.
I do agree with Lorenzo, implementing such a thing will put us in difficult situation with our peers. It would be difficult to explain somebody's AS.
I doubt that our agreements with our peers cover announcing prefixes that do not belong to the RIS, providing transit to other ASes, and forwarding traffic. Also, the prepending work with HK university has shown me that many of our transit peers filter on ^12654$, i.e. don't even accept prepending of our own AS.
If they want to do this, since they already have an AS and a prefix, why don't they get someone to give them transit for the duration of the experiment?
Probably a better solution for them.
Cheers, Lorenzo
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