Has PSI been assigned network 1?

Thu Apr 20 10:03:30 UTC 1995

  > Curtis Villamizar <curtis at ans.net> writes:
  > 
  > If pizzahut wants to reach a wider community, they can ask their
  > provider to register their route in the RADB.  From a routing
  > standpoint all it needs is the prefix, prefix length, and the home-AS.

Right! Case in point that there is some benefit you may get from
registereing in the routing registry. Another benefit would be more
meaningful output from tools like prtraceroute:

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reif!dfk 95> pt 192.112.170.243
** WARNING ** Destination AS unknown for www.pizzahut.com (192.112.170.243)
** WARNING ** Policy information is not possible - setting to "?"

traceroute with AS and policy additions [Apr 20 09:56:34 UTC]

                from AS3333 reif.ripe.net (193.0.0.131)
                to      ??? www.pizzahut.com (192.112.170.243)

 1 AS3333  insomnia                       193.0.0.142        [?] 3 2 2 ms
 2 AS3333  Amsterdam                      193.0.0.222        [?] 28 3 3 ms
 3 AS1128  Amsterdam1.Dante.net           192.87.4.35        [?] 43 10 5 ms
 4 AS1804  icm-dante.icp.net              194.41.0.18        [?] 125 95 87 ms
 5 AS1800  icm-dc-1-E4/2.icp.net          192.157.65.73      [?] 141 90 102 ms
 6 AS1800  Boone1.VA.ALTER.NET            192.157.65.227     [?] 246 239 232 ms
 7  AS701  Dallas1.TX.ALTER.NET           137.39.128.7       [?] 251 263 ms
 8  AS701  Pizzahut-gw.ALTER.NET          137.39.227.226     [?] 321 318 302 ms
 9    ???  www.pizzahut.com               192.112.170.243    [?] 312 315 298 ms

AS Path followed:  AS3333 AS1128 AS1804 AS1800 AS701 ???

AS3333 = RIPE NCC
AS1128 = EuropaNET (Amsterdam and Geneva PoPs)
AS1804 = ICMNET-6
AS1800 = ICM-Atlantic
 AS701 = ALTERNET-AS
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