Re: ARIN IP/AS Assignment

[Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>]

We received our ASN in 2004 with a justification of "intend to multihome."

Jeff

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote:
>
> > It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after
> > hair pulling, head banging on desk, and
> > i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we figured
> > out how to work around the circular "You need to have two upstreams first
> > before we will assign an AS" rule but providers can't/won't peer with you
> > without one in the first place reality.
>
> It's been a while since I've applied for an ASN...but used to be you just
> put on the form that you've ordered connectivity from multiple providers
> with the intent of multihoming, and that was good enough for ARIN.  If
> that's no longer good enough, I would think any understanding provider would
> let you setup the peering connection first, assign it a /30, and then wait
> for you to get your ASN to do the BGP part.
>
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