[6bone] AS45333 (<-- reserved!) announcing 3ffe:400f::/32

Mendel Mobach 6bone@megabot.nl
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:23:21 +0100


On Monday 02 December 2002 23:45, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote:
[..]
> > > There is more:
> > >
> > > What about:
> > >   inet6num:     3FFE:4011::/32
> > >   netname:      EURO6IX
> > >   ipv6-site:    EURO6IX
> > >   origin:       AS65504
> > >
> > > not a very old site I guess...
> >
> > That's also a 'known' abuser of reserved AS space for a TLA.
>
> AS65504 is a private ASN, not a reserved ASN !
> Use of private ASN is more honest.

Of course it is not. I could barf your local setups, tests and more. 
Also: Some nice documents on filtering learned me to filter (I object, but 
that has another reason) on prefix size and filter out (at least: do not send 
to peers) private AS numbers.

Kind Regards,

Mendel Mobach
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