It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN.
Zaid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" <br...@greatbasin.net> To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB? Is the ARIN registry free, then? Jon Lewis wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote: > >> Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects >> (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be >> verified with a whois. > > If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry > (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with > radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > > > > >
