On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: >> Anyone here use AltDB? It seems their servers have been down for two days. > Can anyone from Level3 say how this will impact customer BGP filters. Will > L3 keep working with the last data sync they got from altdb? I'm guessing
Since Level3 updates their prefix-lists at least daily, and integrates new ALTDB updates at least daily, and the ALTDB has been down for over a day, obviously it will not affect your Level3 prefix-lists in the near-term. If Level3 decided to stop honoring ALTDB objects, say, because ALTDB was never fixed, I imagine you would find it necessary to re-publish your objects or Level3 would stop honoring your routes. > I'd been thinking about moving from altdb to ARIN's but hadn't had > sufficient motivation. I emailed ARIN yesterday to ask if their IRR database has any authentication support (other than mail-from) yet. I haven't seen any reply from ARIN yet, but my guess is they still have no useful authentication mechanism. I would rather depend on an IRR database that can't process updates for a few days per year, than use one where a malicious party could alter or erase all of my objects at any time. I would like to note that RADB had route6: support in about 2004 or so, if my memory serves me; while the ARIN database did not accept route6 objects until about a year ago. So it is not exactly a high priority for ARIN. Note also that Level3 has an IRR database, so you could use theirs if you want to. I don't prefer to use a transit provider database if I can use a "neutral" one, but sometimes I would rather not pay the (entirely reasonable) fee for the MERIT RADB. -- Jeff S Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts