BGP action communities
Action communities are for customers use only.
Well-known communities
| community | description |
|---|---|
| 65535:666 | RFC7999, will be rewriten to 50629:666 internally |
| do-not-export | do not announce to any eBGP peer |
Blackholing
We accept /32 (ipv4) and /128 (ipv6).
| community | description |
|---|---|
| 50629:666 | blackhole traffic to prefix, please use 65536:666 for blackholing |
City
Filter announcement based on city. Use the corresponding info community with an addition for the desired action. The city communities are matching city numbers from our info community page.
Example
| community | description |
|---|---|
| 50629:50000 | do not announce except for whitelisted cities |
| 50629:50105 | do announce in Frankfurt |
| 50629:50102 | do announce in Hamburg |
Transit / PNI / IXP
Prepend / filter announcement to AS50629 transits / PNI / IXP. Use the corresponding info community with an addition for the desired action.
Example
| community | description |
|---|---|
| 50629:XXX00 | do not announce to XXX |
| 50629:XXX01 | prepend 1x to XXX |
| 50629:XXX02 | prepend 2x to XXX |
| 50629:XXX03 | prepend 3x to XXX |
Example for DTAG
| community | description |
|---|---|
| 50629:30100 | do not announce to DTAG |
| 50629:30101 | prepend 1x to DTAG |
| 50629:30102 | prepend 2x to DTAG |
| 50629:30103 | prepend 3x to DTAG |
Example for DE-CIX Frankfurt
| community | description |
|---|---|
| 50629:40100 | do not announce at DE-CIX Frankfurt |
| 50629:40101 | prepend 1x to DE-CIX Frankfurt |
| 50629:40102 | prepend 2x to DE-CIX Frankfurt |
| 50629:40103 | prepend 3x to DE-CIX Frankfurt |