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

Gert Doering gert@space.net
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:48:18 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:45:54PM +0100, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote:
> AS65504 is a private ASN, not a reserved ASN !
> Use of private ASN is more honest.

Neither private nor reserved ASN should be visible globally.

*Ever*.

Also it's bad practice to generate AS announcements from a private ASN
that is then stripped by the upstreams with "remove-private-as", because
it creates inconsistent AS paths, and it's hard to troubleshoot who
is actually behind it if something breaks.

Gert Doering
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