do I need to maintain with RADB?

Thu Feb 19 22:19:42 UTC 2009

But I pay for all that already, so it seems that using ARIN is a no-brainer.

Zaid Ali wrote:
> It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN. 
>
> Zaid
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Robertson" <bruce at greatbasin.net>
> To: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?
>
> Is the ARIN registry free, then?
>
> Jon Lewis wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects 
>>> (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be 
>>> verified with a whois.
>>>       
>> If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry 
>> (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with 
>> radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Jon Lewis                   |  I route
>>  Senior Network Engineer     |  therefore you are
>>  Atlantic Net                |
>> _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>
>   
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: bruce.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 366 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20090219/5abe1ead/attachment.vcf>