IRR Validation Notification FAQ
The following document provides a list of questions and answers for SOX Pariticipants to reference in regards to the IRR Validation Notifications.
Notifications indicate an inconsistency was found with the bgp advertisements being received by the SoX Network and their IRR registration as populated and reported by the RADB IRR database.
The IRR Validator tool will generate a new report on the first of each month. Notifications will be sent out following each report generation.
No. The notifications are purely informative. The SoX Network will NOT block any prefixes found to be invalid, but the participant runs the risk on an upstream ISP dropping their unregistered or incorrectly registered traffic.
Reported registration information utilized by the SoX IRR Validator tool can be found directly from the RADB website. A manual query can be run at https://www.radb.net/query.
The SoX router proxy can be utilized by participants to see their advertisements.
Peerings to the 56MAR (Atlanta, GA) router:
Use the drop down command "show route" and insert the text "receive-protocol bgp" followed by your BGP point to point IP.
Example output:
..........................> show route receive-protocol bgp 143.215.194.10
grnoc_rancid@SoX-MX960-rtr> ...ocol bgp 143.215.194.102
inet.0: 415407 destinations, 439724 routes (21264 active, 0 holddown, 394308 hidden)
Prefix Nexthop MED Lclpref AS path
* 128.61.32.0/19 143.215.194.102 20 2637 I
* 128.61.64.0/18 143.215.194.102 20 2637 INotifications can be stopped by...
- Updating or correcting prefix registrations with their associated routing internet registry.
- The IRR Validator will no longer flag these advertisements as invalid and notifications will cease.
- Submitting a general request to the SoX NOC here and request a notification exclusion.
Open a general request with the SoX NOC here and we will be happy to help.