On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: >> In all seriousness though, how does this get fixed? and... who has to >> renumber? :) > > luckily, it's not a renumber in the ip address sense. but some router > jock[ette]s are gonna be even more overworked than usual.
hope for their sake it's just 1 router :) and 2 transits ... if they have internal bgp setup (more than one router in their peering/transit edge) it's going to cause them some pain :( (at least with only 1 router and 2 bgp peers you could hope to static route around the maintenance event) > how to detect if there are more instances? o Should some form of 'scrape routeviews before assignment' happen at the RIR? (if you don't like o RV, pick another 2-3 sources of data) o How do you make sure each RIR does this act? o Should the customer check public data sources before acceptance? o Is there a 30 day revoke/return dance for Number Resources? > how to prevent new instances, both asn and ip? See above ... It seems sensible to check existing data sources, if that can be automated easily enough? -chris