Micro-allocation needed?
Ask Bjørn Hansen
ask at develooper.com
Mon Jun 21 21:42:29 UTC 2010
On Jun 21, 2010, at 23:34, William Pitcock wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 23:32 +0200, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We're going to anycast a /24 for some DNS servers (and possibly another UDP based service)[1].
>>
>> I see that ARIN are listing on https://www.arin.net/knowledge/ip_blocks.html the smallest allocations from each prefix. Will we have trouble getting a /24 announced if we take it from a regular /20?
>
> No, you can split up allocations as you want, provided you can prove you
> own them.
>
> Some providers however, won't announce anything smaller than a /24.
I guess to rephrase my question:
Are there (a significant number of) providers that will filter a /24 announcement from an ARIN prefix not in the list of prefixes where they allocate /24 blocks.
(I take it from what you wrote that the answer is "No").
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