Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-08 Thread bdragon
You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees or require you to be a customer. If there is no operational value for me why would I want to spend the money? I realize most of you work for companies that consider a million dollars chump change but that is not the

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-05 Thread leo vegoda
Mark Radabaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees or require you to be a customer. If there is no operational value for me why would I want to spend the money? I realize most of you work for companies that consider a

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-03 Thread lhoward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all] --- Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generating route filters from the IRR via a small lump of script has the potential to be cheaper, quicker, more efficient

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-03 Thread David Barak
I'm thrilled to hear that that project is being picked up again. The long-term benefits (IMO) are worth the non-trivial amount of effort required to make a functioning solution. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very subtle, David. As it happens, somebody asked only last week if they could take

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-03 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very subtle, David. As it happens, somebody asked only last week if they could take up the project again. For those who think mapping filters to route objects is nigh trivial, there is a significant difference between network assignees and routes.

RE: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-03 Thread Jim Deleskie
RADB? [was BGP to doom us all] Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers. Level3 do atleast. Most European providers do

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-03 Thread Danny McPherson
Yes, at iMCI (we) had our own registry, MCI-RR, but we only used it (in addition to data from the other IRRs) to generate customer prefix filters, not peers. Cable Wireless still uses the RR, now know as CW-RR. -danny As I remember and I could be wrong, its been a few years now, when I

RE: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-03 Thread Jim Deleskie
:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all] Yes, at iMCI (we) had our own registry, MCI-RR, but we only used it (in addition to data from the other IRRs) to generate customer prefix filters, not peers. Cable Wireless still uses the RR, now know as CW-RR

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-02 Thread Joe Abley
On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 11:28 America/Vancouver, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too?

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-02 Thread Joe Abley
On Sunday, Mar 2, 2003, at 14:06 America/Vancouver, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too?

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-02 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generating route filters from the IRR via a small lump of script has the potential to be cheaper, quicker, more efficient and less customer-enraging than the common alternative approach of opening six different tickets with the NOC and sacrificing

Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
No, the lazy operational implementations of how people deploy BGP in their networks will be the downfall of the Internet. I see on a daily basis, wrong announcements, route leaks tripping max-prefixes, RADB entries that are either totally out of date, completely wrong or for some large

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers. Level3 do atleast. Most European providers do. Neil.

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Danny McPherson
Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers. Level3 do atleast. Most European providers do. For customers, though not inter-provider.

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Danny McPherson
as you say for customers only. Inter-provider we have basic bogon checking plus maximum prefix. Its too unwieldy to build when you have peers exchanging thousands of routes... theres a belief that the peer should be behaving responsibly tho and this is a condition of most bilateral

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
So, let's recap why no one uses them (as many have said already in the related thread): Laziness. The same laziness that results in the slew of other things many folks have pointed out not being addressed. -danny You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mark Radabaugh wrote: So, let's recap why no one uses them (as many have said already in the related thread): Laziness. The same laziness that results in the slew of other things many folks have pointed out not being addressed. -danny You forgot the other one

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Danny McPherson
You forgot the other one - expense. AFAIK all of the registries have fees or require you to be a customer. If there is no operational value First problem, you see no operational value. for me why would I want to spend the money? Money changing hands no longer makes the IRR a

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too? And if everyone filters your prefixes that will be operational value enough to

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread jlewis
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mark Radabaugh wrote: Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers. AFAIK, Level3 and CW. I have to keep RADB entries

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread alex
It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too? And if everyone filters your prefixes that will be operational value enough to

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:20:43AM -0500, Mark Radabaugh wrote: This is not meant as a complaint toward Verio - I'm simply trying to decide why we should go to the added expense of entering our routes in a RADB. To date I have seen no operational difference between using RADB and not using

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Meltzer
A) Verio provides a free db for its customers They're not the only ones, CWI and Level3 do as well, off the top of my head. B) Altdb is free, and works great That it does, round of applause for Steve :) Jeff -- Jeffrey Meltzer ICS/VillageWorld 631-218-0700 x100

RE: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Michael Hallgren
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mark Radabaugh wrote: Who actually uses RADB to build filters other than Verio? While my experience with other providers is limited Verio is the only one (of the ones we have used) who used RADB entries for BGP peers. AFAIK, Level3 and CW. Teleglobe as well

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:31:30AM -0500, Mark Radabaugh wrote: So, let's recap why no one uses them (as many have said already in the related thread): Laziness. The same laziness that results in the slew of other things many folks have pointed out not being addressed. -danny