Re: About the address allocation convention between ISPs

[Teng Fei <tfei () ipanema ecs umass edu>]

Dear Mr. Barak,

Right, in your example, AS7018 and AS209 are both backbone ISPs and I
guess they are peering at NY.   So if the addresses at both ends of
the "real" inter-domain link were assigned with qwest's address, hop 6
would be the inter-domain link.  But if the addresses were assigned with
AT&T's address, hop 5 would be the inter-domain link.   DNS name
seems would not help in this case.

And here is another question that confuses me.  Using your example.  If
the link was as follows,

--+                                          +-----------+
  |IP1(domainnameA) <------> IP2(domainnameB)| border rt |IP3(domainnameC)
--+                                          +-----------+

If the router on the left(only half was drawn) physically belongs to att,
and the router on the right physically belongs to qwest.  the Link between
IP1 and IP2 is the inter-domain link.  IP1 and IP2 should be a pair of /30
addresses.   My question is how are the domain names of IP1 and IP2
assigned?  If say IP1 and IP2 are both addresses from AT&T's address
block, the for IP2, is it usually foo.att.com or foo.qwest.com?

Thank you very much!

Sincerely

Teng

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Barak wrote:

> Many larger networks (with multiple interconnections
> will split the chore, where the numbering reflects
> exactly who is responsible for the physical circuit.
>
> So alas, there is no one "right" answer to your
> question, unless you're going to try to put together a
> table based on the naming conventions...
>
> for instance, probably hop "6" is the actual interface
> between 7018 and 209 in NY according to this view.
>
>   5 gar4-p300.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.123.3.2) [AS 7018]
> 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec
>   6 att-gw.ny.qwest.net (192.205.32.170) [AS 7018] 4
> msec 4 msec 4 msec
>   7 jfk-core-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.230.26) [AS
> 209] 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec
>
> -David Barak
>
> --- Teng Fei <tfei () ipanema ecs umass edu> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have a question about the convention of address
> > allocation between ISPs.
> > If a smaller ISP tries to establish connection with
> > its provider, does
> > this small ISP configure one of the interface on its
> > boarder router using
> > an IP address obtained from the provider, or it is
> > the other way around,
> > that is, the provider uses one of the IP address
> > belongs to the customer
> > to configure the provider's boarder router?
> >
> > I have this question because I am trying to identify
> > the link between two
> > organizations from traceroute measurements.   How
> > the addresses are
> > allocated will affect the identification of the
> > inter-domain link by
> > exactly one hop.
> >
> > I am not sure if there is such a convention at all,
> > or the address
> > assignment is randomly decided according to the
> > agreement between the
> > customer and the provider?
> >
> > Since I know there are many seasoned network
> > professionals on this mailing
> > list, I think it might be a proper question to ask
> > here.  Would anyone
> > kindly be willing to share your experience?  Thank
> > you very much!
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Teng
>
>
> =====
> David Barak
> -fully RFC 1925 compliant-
>
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