Re: Is it normal for your provider to withhold BGP peering info until the night of the cut?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:26 PM, c b <bz_siege_01 () hotmail com> wrote:
>
> We have 4 full-peering providers between two data centers. Our accounting people did some shopping and found that 
> there was a competitor who came in substantially lower this year and leadership decided to swap our most expensive 
> circuit to the new carrier. 
> (I don't know what etiquette is, so I won't name the carrier... but it's a well-known name)
> Anyways, we were preparing for the circuit cutover and asked for the BGP peering info up front like we normally do. 
> This carrier said that they don't provide this until the night of the cut. Now, we've done this 5 or 6 times over the 
> years with all of our other carriers and this is the first one to ever do this. We even escalated to our account 
> manager and they still won't provide it.
> I know it's not a huge deal, but life is so much easier when you can prestage your cut and rollback commands. In 
> fact, our internal Change Management process mandates peer review all proposed config changes and now we have to 
> explain why some lines say TBD!
> Is this a common SOP nowadays? Anyone care to explain why they wouldn't just provide it ahead of time?
> Thanks in advance.
> CWB                                     

They probably make it up as they go along during the turn-up.

Owen