Friday, August 23, 2019

Please, help clarify! CIDR w/o AS#

Hello network gurus,

As far as I know (very little), in order for BGP to work, a certain CIDR must have an AS assigned. If no AS is assigned, then there is no way for traffic to reach that CIDRs since routers don't know how to get there. True? (ignoring static routes)

If I look for a CIDR here: https://bgp.he.net/ip/ and it comes out as "not found" .. does it imply no AS is assigned?

And does the above imply I can actually send traffic to those CIDRs and be sure they are not bothered, since my packets will die on my first-mile ISP router?

As far as I've understood, this happens when some public routes are used for internal routing and thus are not advertised.

Thanks!



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