> -----Original Message----- > From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com > [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:34 AM > To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost > Cc: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost > <mksm...@adhost.com> wrote: > > > Sorry for the misfire on my last email. The 206.81.80.0/23 network is > assigned to the SIX from ARIN. In general, we don't want > > people to announce that space to the DFZ, so the three providers listed > above are not filtering their announcements properly. It is, as > > others have said, a good idea to announce the exchange block to your > customers, but not out to the DFZ. > > why is it a good idea to send this to your customers? the next-hop > info is surely only useful to your local network? done right it's even > only relevant to the IX connected router, right? it seems wholely > unusful to your customers. (to me at least)
I was thinking about what Leo said about tools that test each hop through a path. At least my downstream customers will be able to test through the SIX connection if I announce the /23 to them. Mike
