Same - we poll all the major RR every 24 hours. Our scripts will automatically add or remove prefixes based on matching origin key From: routing-wg-bounces@ripe.net [mailto:routing-wg-bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Michael Hallgren Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 9:25 AM To: routing-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [routing-wg] Who uses the RIPE IRR and for what? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 21/11/2014 10:08, Gert Doering a écrit :
Hi,
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 06:31:56PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Of the remaining 235,061 route base IP addresses, fully 28,988 of >> those (12.3%) are being announced by some AS other than the one >> specified in the ripe.db.route file. > > To state something that might be obvious or not - for the same prefix, > you can have multiple route: entries with different origin ASes, which > makes sense when a network moves (add new route: object, start new > announcement, eventually remove old route: object). So, some of these > might be perfectly fine, some might be forgotten (= a route: object with > the proper origin AS exists as well), and some might just be legacy > garbage - indeed. > >> Given the considerable number of routing anomalies revealed by my simple >> experiment, I am inclined to wonder who is actually using all of that >> route information in the RIPE DB, and what on earth they could be using >> it for. > > We use it to build BGP filters for BGP customers. So did I at previous employer's edge, for years and years.
> > For those, the filter is build using the origin AS as key, so if there are > additional route objects for the same prefix but with a different origin AS, > our script won't see them, so it's "garbage that does not disturb anything". > > Of course, if the origin AS doesn't match at all, customers' BGP announcements > won't go out - and they usually notice that quickly and fix their stuff. Yes, voilà, same.
> > (Our upstream providers do the same thing for us, so it's used on a larger > scale - unfortunately, not all large transit providers do that, some just > take the money and look the other way) Right, shared view. Cheers, mh
> Gert Doering > -- NetMaster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlRvBMkACgkQZNZ/rrgsqafVWACgkueQOPf6h5cEdjWJy6zzBRM1 +n0An0CaPJAlnWyuD6t1Hzr7Yrp7RhrW =N+tK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----