[133357] in North American Network Operators' Group
Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Wed Dec 8 15:06:06 2010
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:01:43 -0500
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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How many networks already leak numerous unnecessary /24s to their
transit providers, who accept them (not having been asked to do
anything else), and contribute to table bloat? =A0Quite a lot of
networks do this.
Imagine if there are many possible inter-domain routes that are being
filtered by transit networks, because their customers accidentally
announce some number of /25-/32 networks to them. =A0These do not affect
us today; but I would hate to see all those accidental announcements
suddenly appear in my routing table; or for my transit providers to
have the bear the expense of dealing with them.
--
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
