[c-nsp] Somewhat rudamentary BGP question regarding Cisco gear.

[Hank Nussbacher]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, John Neiberger wrote:

> >       Basically I am trying to figure out (and you may laugh so hard
> >that milk comes out of your nose, [you remember that, right?]) Why;
> when
> >people, myself included look up our AS on fixedorbit.com and other
> >looking glass-ish sites it says the AS is not in use when we are
> >actually neighbored with no less than 5 different Autonomous Systems.
> >Some people have mentioned that fixedorbit doesn't have a complete
> view
> >of the Internet, that's fine. I have also noticed that certain public
> >router sites such as the route-views project exhibits the same
> behavior.
> >It is not affecting any functionality. It is more a question of "form"
> I
> >suppose.
>
> Interesting. I've never heard of this site before. I decided to check
> our AS and found that it is not in use. I guess I can go home for the
> day, then. ;-)

fixedorbit used to be a very useful site but it would appear that they
have had data problems over the past few months and haven't corrected
matters.

-Hank