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Table of contents<br>Hello, and welcome to my ASN journey, where we explore BGP, and getting our own IP address.<br>People are buying domain names, which is part of what we called &ldquo;internet resources.&rdquo;<br>If an ordinary people like me can buy domain names, then what about owning an IP address?<br>Why can&rsquo;t ordinary people buy an IP address just like domain names?<br>Most of the IP address that exist today are owned by the big business and big government.<br>There are still no concrete tutorials on how to set up BGP from the ground up, so I created my own.<br>List of my ASN/BGP tutorials<br>My ASN Journey: Acquiring your own ASN<br>My ASN Journey: Setting up your own ASN<br>My ASN Journey: Configuring BGP on VPS<br>My ASN Journey: Bring home the IPv6 via SOCKS5<br>My ASN Journey: Bring home the IPv6 via WireGuard<br>My ASN Journey: Joining an Internet Exchange (IXP)<br>My ASN Journey: Getting more upstreams<br>My ASN Journey: Setting up IP geolocation<br>My ASN Journey: Acquiring more IPv6 prefixes (TBD)<br>My ASN Journey: Setting up RPKI<br>My ASN Journey: Setting up reverse DNS (rDNS) (TBD)<br>My ASN Journey: Free IPv6 transit with Hurricane Electric (TBD)<br>Rationale<br>Getting your own IP address has several advantages.<br>Your ISP does not have IPv6, and you want to have IPv6.<br>By getting your own ASN and IPv6, you get IPv6 connectivity.<br>Your ISP uses CGNAT, which shares a single IPv4 address across their customers.<br>What if someone is abusive? Then that IPv4 address gets banned, and you are also banned.<br>Since you are the only one who uses that IPv6 prefix, then your IPv6 prefix is tagged clean.<br>This is basically a VPN, but your IP address is not tagged as a proxy, allowing you to edit on Wikipedia or watch Netflix for example.<br>No more CAPTCHAs since you are the only one using your own IPv6 address.<br>Limitations<br>Why you shouldn&rsquo;t get your own ASN and IP address.<br>Self-doxxing. Unlike domain names, ASN registration has no &ldquo;domain privacy,&rdquo; and your personal information needs to be published to the internet.<br>Unless you have registered a company, RIPE NCC requires verifying your ID.<br>Every website you visit using your own IP address has a name tag to you.<br>You can mess up the DFZ. Messing up the default-free zone because of BGP misconfiguration will make network engineers get mad at you.<br>You contribute to the growth of the Internet routing table. Remember 512K day? Brace yourself, 768K day is coming.<br>Costs and expenses<br>ASN: £15 one-off fee from Lagrange Cloud.<br>RIPE ASN Fee: £54.99 per year.<br>BGP IPv6 only VPS: 5 CHF per 3 months from iFog GmbH.<br>Optional expenses<br>FogIXP for BGP IPv6 only VPS: Additional 3 CHF per 3 months from iFog GmbH.<br>BGP VPS with ONIX: $3 per month from HYEHOST.<br>FAQs<br>Do I need to have an ASN to get and announce my own IP address?<br>No, you can ask your provider to announce the IPs for you via a private ASN, but I have not seen a provider that is cheap enough to do BYOIP without an ASN. Getting your own ASN is the best option.

Is it possible to get your own IPv4 address?<br>Yes, but make sure you have deep pockets ready, this is why this tutorial will focus more about IPv6.

Difference between IP transit and peering?<br>IP transit: You will get all prefixes on the internet or a default route.<br>Peering: You will get only prefixes for that particular AS and their downstream AS.Semi-transit: When a network became so large like Hurricane Electric that peering with them allows you to access almost half of the world&rsquo;s internet.

Should I play on dn42 first before going inside the BGP rabbit hole?<br>You can, but not a requirement. But some knowledge about networking and setting up a VPS is definitely needed.

If I brought an IPv6 only VPS, how can I access it if my ISP does not have IPv6?<br>Use Cloudflare WARP. Or better yet setup Cloudflare WARP Connector on your router.

Other useful resources<br>Networking: IPv6 Discord server<br>Why and how I got my own ASN!<br>What I wish I knew when I got my ASN<br>The Beginner’s Guide: ASN Setup<br>BGP.training<br>ASN number registration - Start your own ASN<br>How to Build Your Own ISP<br>Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit<br>LoA Generator<br>Driving the ASN Truck Without a Licence<br>Welcome to BGP - Setting Up Your Own BGP Network: A Step-by-Step Guide (IPv6)<br>Intro to BGP: Operator Lessons

Related content<br>My ASN Journey: Setting up IP geolocation

My ASN Journey: Getting more upstreams

My ASN Journey: Setting up RPKI

My ASN Journey: Joining an Internet Exchange

My ASN Journey: Bring home the IPv6 via WireGuard