Low AS - Number

Mon Apr 21 16:51:27 UTC 2003

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:46:19AM -0400, Dwight Ringdahl wrote:
> 
> Nope strictly for marketing reasons... ASN has almost no place in BGP
> selection.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: dwightringdahl at yahoo.com
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Low AS - Number 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:10:58 EDT, Dwight Ringdahl <dwightringdahl at yahoo.com>
> said:
> > Just a quick FYI, I am no longer with WebUseNet ASN 19151. I'll be
> starting
> > to build a new network over the next several months. Does anyone have a
> low
> > ASN I can buy/transfer as to not have one up in the 30,000s...
> 
> Lemme guess - not only do some places filter 69/8, they bogon-filter AS

	http://puck.nether.net/~jared/papers/69-paper.html

> numbers
> over 32K as well?  Or is there some other reason?


	I can't find it right now, but I believe there is a regex out
there that some people may be using to drop unallocated asn blocks
in as-path filtering.  Considering  the following, it's not too
shocking to understand why people would want to drop such announcements:

http://www.cymru.com/BGP/asnbogusrep.html


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