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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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Octoth0rpe ◴[10 Aug 22 13:45 UTC] No.32411808[source]▶
A couple of fun facts about this guy:

His little ISP is AS267, which is a SHOCKINGLY low number. That's like.. the ISP equiv of a 4 digit slashdot id, or owning something like sodapop.com.

He's also one of the authors of RFC 5575, which is a pretty big deal in the DDoS world.

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hammock ◴[10 Aug 22 15:42 UTC] No.32413877[source]▶
What is an ASN and what advantage is there to have a low number?
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1. _-david-_ ◴[10 Aug 22 16:04 UTC] No.32414263[source]▶
ASN is an Autonomous System Number. An ISP is the primary example of an Autonomous System. There are other organizations that have ASNs like data centers.

The internet is decentralized. Basically, each autonomous system is its own network. This means that they need to connect with one another in order to allow traffic between each other. This is called peering. In order to peer with another network you must have an ASN.

The number doesn't matter.