Re: [v6ops] BGP Identifier

Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> Sat, 15 February 2014 15:26 UTC

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Op 15 feb. 2014, om 16:13 heeft Shane Amante <shane@castlepoint.net> het volgende geschreven:
> On Feb 15, 2014, at 12:55 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> I use this funny thing called DNS. 
> 
> And that has what to do with the problem of determining liveness or determining where in the topology is a ROUTER_ID?

And what does an integer called ROUTER_ID tell you about that?

And hey, you can always create records like
  1.2.3.4.router-id.castlepoint.net IN CNAME router1.somewhere.castlepoint.net

:-)

Cheers,
Sander