#27154: lets use something else than AS0 for "unknown" AS number ----------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: nusenu | Owner: metrics-team Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Metrics/Relay Search | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: ----------------------------------+------------------------------ Changes (by irl):
* status: new => closed * resolution: => wontfix Comment: English words are not numbers. The reason for choosing AS0 was that it will never appear in that field otherwise. The specification you have linked talks about AS0 being used for *non-routed* networks. If an IP address is non-routed then it would not appear in the routing tables that are used to generate this information. "unknown" means that we did not find the address in a lookup table, that is based on BGP routing tables. I considered using a private AS number for this field, but it is possible for these to be accepted by routers that aren't filtering properly, so this would lead to confusion. RFC7606 was part of the reasoning for choosing AS0. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27154#comment:2> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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