[Apologies for duplicate messages] The RIPE Routing Information Service has made some alterations to our BGP Routing Beacon announcements. The main changes (since 3 February 2005) are: * Beacon prefixes now come from a new, larger address range 84.205.64.0/19 (instead of 195.80.224.0/20); * We now announce an "anchor prefix" corresponding to each beacon; * For each beacon and anchor prefix there is a "pingable" target at the first address in the range (beaconNN.ris.ripe.net, anchorNN.ris.ripe.net). All prefixes announced by the RIS (AS12654) are listed in the AS12654:RS-RIS 'route-set' and individual 'route' objects in the RIPE Database and are described in more detail at http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/docs/beaconlist.html RIS peers should set any maximum prefix limit to at least the number of entries listed in the route-set (although it is unlikely that any one RRC will ever advertise more than a small subset of these prefixes). We would also like our peers to treat these prefixes in the same way that they would a customer's prefix and announce them to their other peers and upstream providers. If you have any questions, please contact the RIS team at ris@ripe.net. Regards, The RIPE NCC RIS Team