[DBWG] can't create ROA with ASN0 - myafrinic

[Simon Seruyinda]

Dear All,

Development and testing of this feature is done on our end.
We have now requested production deployment.
We shall update you once deployment is done.

Regards;
Simon 


> On 11 Jun 2019, at 03:33, Amreesh Phokeer <amreesh at afrinic.net> wrote:

> 

> Hi all,

> 

> Thank you for your input. 

> 

> In fact, we check the status of the AS against the IANA whois database and reject anything tagged as reserved.

> 

> For e.g. we would reject AS4200000000

> Amreeshs-MacBook-Pro:~ amreesh$ whois -hwhois.iana.org AS4200000000

> % IANA WHOIS server

> % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org

> % This query returned 1 object

> 

> as-block:     4200000000-4294967294

> organisation: Reserved for Private Use

> 

> descr:        Reserved for Private Use

> 

> source:       IANA

> 

> We need to put an exception to this rule for AS0. 

> 

> Working on that.

> 

> 

> Regards,

> Amreesh

> 

>> On 10 Jun 2019, at 21:12, Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:

>> 

>> Dear all,

>> 

>> It would be beneficial if AFRINIC allows one to specify “0” as the origin ASN for a given IP resource. Indeed the ASN is reserved, but that shouldn’t preclude anyone from listing it in their ROA.

>> 

>> It would also be good if AFRINIC rejects private ASNs from being specified in this field. Specifically 23456, 64496-131071, and 4200000000-4294967295 inclusive.

>> 

>> Kind regards,

>> 

>> Job

>> 

>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:16 Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:

>> Hi,

>> 

>> In MyAfriNIC, I can't create ROA with ASN0 - for my IXP peering LAN

>> prefixes (196.223.5.0/24 and 2001:43f8::/48)

>> 

>> "The AS Number you have specified is a reserved one!"

>> 

>> shouldn't be like this, or?

>> It's not really that much reserved to be excluded from ROA creation.

>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6483#section-4

>> 

>> Thanks,

>> Frank

>> 

>> yes: I don't want these to get advertised, by anyone.

>> 

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