June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 1m
English
Once you have your ASN and some address space to announce through it, you look for places to colocate or lease your servers that will accept your BGP announcements and aggregate them into their own routing tables.
There are multiple ways to do this. Your provider may simply announce from their routers and put in static routes to your servers within their network. Or, you may control the announcements directly from your own router, gateway or running a routing suite such as quagga, BIRD (brought to you by the same organization that created Knot DNS) or exaBGP on the nameservers themselves.
The advantage of doing the announcements yourself is that you have full control. You can easily drop your announcement ...
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