On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:28 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: >> The vastly better option is to obtain a prefix and ASN from ARIN and merely >> trade BGP with your >> upstream providers. > > My "(cheap) cable modem for general browsing" provider wouldn't even > delegate RDNS; they'd only put PTRs in *their* servers. Swap BGP > routes with them? Swell dream. > Or work around it with a free tunnel to a nearby tunnel service that does support BGP and will give you a /48.
> This has become a common strategy: the cheap, fast, commodity service > for the most-of-the-time that it's working and the most-of-the-stuff > that it works for combined with the expensive and slow but reliable > and full featured service for the mission critical apps. One of these > isn't going to come with BGP and a PI prefix, and the technologies we > deploy are going to have to deal with that. > Yep. For IPv6, there are options. Owen