PeerinDB refuses to register certain networks [was: Setting sensible max-prefix limits]

Niels Bakker niels=nanog at bakker.net
Thu Aug 19 00:11:48 UTC 2021


>>When did PeeringDB turn into a routing (policy) registry?
>>You should use an IRRdb if you want to write RPSL.

* sabri at cluecentral.net (Sabri Berisha) [Thu 19 Aug 2021, 01:59 CEST]:
>The difference is, if you are able to use PeeringDB as a single 
>source of truth, it is a lot easier to grab the data you need.
>
>But again, their database, their rules.

So you were planning to abuse, er, creatively implement their 
datamodel to declare yourself an IXP and list all your peers as 
members of said IXP, and then convince the world to build filter 
lists based on said participant list?

Creative, but indeed not what PeeringDB is about.


	-- Niels.


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