On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:44:05AM +1300, Drew Whittle wrote:
A client of ours has a provider independant assignment in the 203.0.0.0 to 203.63.255.255 range.
I know that this was originally an allocated block to AUNIC in Australia, but with the switch back to APNIC the client now wants to know if they can use them here in New Zealand?
I haven't managed to work out what is routable here in New Zealand and what isn't, anyone able to provider further information?
I have yet to find any provider anywhere who will refuse to advertise prefixes because the RIR that allocated them does not appear to be local. They should/will check that the prefixes in question seem to be legitimately registered to the entity that wishes to receive their traffic, though.
(Yes I know that just because it is provider independant doesn't mean that upstream providers will route it)
There are a few operators who filter on RIR allocation boundaries (Verio is one). However, I would be surprised if 203.0.0.0/10 was treated as anything other than a swamp of /24s, given its history. I would expect that there would be few problems advertising the kind of prefix you are talking about so long as it doesn't have a mask longer than 24 bits. The person to ask about this is your prospective transit provider in NZ, and also any other operator who currently advertises a supernet route which covers the prefix you want to advertise. APNIC have nothing to say about routability of prefixes, in general, just allocation of numbers. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog