On Thu 13 Nov 2025 13:25:10 GMT, Tore Anderson via NANOG wrote: > Den 12.11.2025 23:14, skreiv John Kristoff via NANOG: > > I'd be interested in hearing if people set a hostname on their BGP > > routers and send it to peers (internal and/or external). > > > > I'm also interested in hearing if you see external peers sending it to > > you. > > Yes and yes. We see a few route server operators (Netnod and Verizon) to > be specific advertise it to us. We find it useful, as it makes the > neighbour summary more human readable for those peers, as we do not have > to remember their IP addresses and/or AS numbers to know which peer it > is at a glance: > > $ show bgp ipv4 unicast vrf internet summary > > … > > r1.nix.dnadm.se(185.1.55.200) 4 8674 2289433 2289357 > 0 0 0 04w2d03h 0 4 > r1.osl.dnadm.se(185.1.55.201) 4 8674 2289420 > 2289341 0 0 0 02w1d02h 0 4 > athenalb1.elosl3.electra.vrsn.com(185.1.55.204) 4 26415 2286083
I also see it on some eBGP sessions on the RS as an IXP operator. On my side, I use it on iBGP on my RRs as I configured a range to be the dynamic peers, and I know who’s who with it. -- Alarig _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/V22E6MY2KXH27OB4XDYUNGADIWG4TOB4/
