Low AS - Number

Mon Apr 21 16:19:06 UTC 2003

Unless you're AS 1 <cough> AS 3356 </cough> does it really matter? :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Kuhnke [mailto:eric at fnordsystems.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:12 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Low AS - Number

The US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground controls ASN 666.  Coincidence?  I think
not!

:)

At 12:10 PM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Dwight Ringdahl wrote:
>> Nope strictly for marketing reasons... ASN has almost no place in BGP 
>> selection.
>
>Dang Geek Pride!  (Still MH94 and 3901 after all these years..)
>
>It's worse than hanging around Ham radio guys with 4 digit call 
>signs...
>
>.. Next we'll get into .. "I booted off of paper tape.." and then.. "I 
>booted off of flip switches".. but I'm one of the few that have strung 
>ferrites on a loom.. Martha.. get me my cane..
>
>------- And to get completely off topic.. Why/how would you use
>an ASN for marketing purposes? And should this even be considered..
>except as a tongue in cheek geek thing? 

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