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Using the APNIC Routing Registry to configure network routers

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• Identify all aspects of your network's routing policy
• Record your network's routing policy using RPSL
• Use automated tools to retrieve information from the APNIC Routing Registry and create router configurations

Identify all aspects of your network's routing policy

Identify customer and peer networks and the routes you will import from and export to them.

Record your network's routing policy using RPSL

RPSL (Routing Policy Specification Language) allows networks to describe your routing policy in a compact form by using route and aut-num and other related objects. Describing network policy using these objects can help your network identify routing policy errors and omissions more easily than by reading long configuration files.

For information on how to use the objects in the APNIC Routing Registry to record your routing policy, see follow the links to see more about the objects described below:

To see a full list of APNIC Whois Database objects, see APNIC Whois Database objects.

Use automated tools to retrieve information from the APNIC Routing Registry and create router configurations

Tools such as the IRRToolset can convert policy stored in the APNIC Routing Registry from RPSL format into router configuration files for different architectures. Configuration files produced this way are less prone to errors than manually configured routers.

More information

• APNIC Routing Registry resource guide
• APNIC Whois Database objects resource guide
• RFC 2622 - Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
• RFC 2650 - Using RPSL in Practice

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