announce prefix

wbahati at afsat-af.com (Wycliffe Bahati) wrote:

> 	Do some providers out there have a problem accepting announcements that
> do not have route objects created.

I wouldn't count on an undocumented route being accepted. There are
quite some ISPs (among them some of the typical transit AS) that will
filter it.

> I am considering a fact that an ISP 
> could have a /16 however it has not assigned this address to anybody,
> however they need to announce this in order to assign this to there
> customers.

If they advertise it, they should document it.

Elmar.

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