26 Aug
2021
26 Aug
'21
2:33 p.m.
Hi Nick,
I am aware there will be a slim chance for this to
happen but having a 44net subnet directly routed would be super amazing. I am aware that
"normal" providers likely won't do this except for business customers (at
many $$$/months) and likely the subnet needs to be large (>=/24?)
We do allow members to announce their own prefix via BGP, some have their own ASN and do
it themselves, others have an existing provider do it for them. A popular choice is Vultr
who will rent you a cheap VM and you can run Bird/FRR/Quagga/etc on it and announce your
prefix to them via a private ASN, they will then announce it to the DFZ under their own
ASN. You can then either use the address space on the VM, or tunnel back to your shack for
use there.
Relating to your other question on the list - we do delegate reverse DNS for BGP
prefixes.
I could imagine though that small providers may be up
for it (as an example, in a place I lived many years ago, I had a small provider; I
contacted the CEO directly and he immideately agreed to assign+route me a /29 at no
cost!).
Are there any known providers (US, California) who could route a 44net subnet?
To everyone who has their 44 routed directly: How does it work for you?
See above.
Finally: The whole 44net is announed only by the UCSD
gateway (as far as I understand). Wouldn't it be great to improve the connectivity,
reliability, redundancy by having 44 announced by multiple people who route their subnet
directly and then forwarding them to the mesh network via ipip? Is there a reason this is
not done, other than nobody besides UCSD volunteered ?
Announcing a prefix yourself and joining the IPIP mesh are mutually exclusive. The TAC are
working on creating POPs that will provide additional connectivity options, so fairly soon
(I hope) you should be able to connect via a simple VPN, or BGP using a smaller than /24
prefix, etc.
Regards,
Chris
Thanks,
KM6RDV
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