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

Job Snijders job at ntt.net
Mon Jun 10 23:51:05 UTC 2019


Great! Thanks

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 19:33 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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