[ixpmanager] AS-SET Is not Working

Shahab Vahabzadeh me at shahabv.com
Mon Apr 20 06:55:28 IST 2020


Nick,
Our IRRDB source for all customers is RIPE.
Thanks

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:23 AM Shahab Vahabzadeh <me at shahabv.com> wrote:

> Dear Nick,
> Now for customer Asiatech (AS43754) we have IPv4 and IPv6 Peering Macro
> which is AS-ASIATECH.
> And also as I check the ripe database there is a valid route object for
> 185.141.213.0/24 with AS43754 itself.
> So why is there an error for this prefix?
> Thanks
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:53 PM Nick Hilliard (INEX) <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
>
>> Shahab Vahabzadeh wrote on 19/04/2020 08:34:
>> > You are right but what is your idea about this prefix: 185.141.213.0/24
>> ?
>> > There is a route object in ripe with AS43754 and this AS belongs to the
>> > customer himself.
>> > But again it's filter with two tag: Prefix Filtered, Origin AS Filtered
>>
>> The list of IRRDB prefixes is built using the "IPv4 Peering Macro" and
>> "IRRDB Source" in the Customer profile.
>>
>> If the "IPv4 Peering Macro" field is blank, then it uses the AS.
>>
>> The artisan irrdb:update-prefix-db command uses the bgpq3 command to
>> populate the local database using the peering macro and the source list.
>>
>> The first thing to do is check the information that's going into the
>> local database.
>>
>> -  you need to check that the "IPv4 Peering Macro" is set to what the
>> customer specifies
>>
>> -  make sure the irrdb source looks correct.  Probably it should be set
>> to "RIPE".
>>
>> -  you need to make sure that there is a route: object in the IRRDB for
>> the prefix that you're checking.
>>
>> You can find out what bgpq3 thinks by calling it directly using the
>> parameters specified in IXP Manager, e.g. if you've set the as-set to be
>> blank, it will use the AS itself:
>>
>> > % bgpq3 -S RIPE AS43754 | grep 185.141.213.0/24
>> > ip prefix-list NN permit 185.141.213.0/24
>> > %
>>
>> This means that there's a route: object in the RIPE IRRDB, which is a
>> good start.
>>
>> The next thing would be to check the AS-SET that you're using in IXP
>> Manager for this customer, along with the IRRDB source list:
>>
>> > % bgpq3 -S "<IRRDB source list>" <IPv4 peering macro> | grep
>> 185.141.213.0/24
>>
>> If this comes up blank, then you've identified that the problem is that
>> you're using the wrong IRRDB source, the wrong AS set or else that the
>> customer hasn't configured their AS set properly.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>
> --
>
> Cheers, Shahab
>


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Cheers, Shahab
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