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Re: 3500 Egyptian prefixes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Jan 28 14:08:02 2011
In-Reply-To: <BCFF7510-17CC-4CD3-A3B7-2D9C20584551@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:07:16 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum
<iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
> On the Renesys blog http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
> it says that 3500 prefixes disappeared. 1% of the global table seems a lot, especially considering that according to AfriNIC Egypt only has 122 IPv4 and 7 IPv6 prefixes.
>
> What gives?
de-aggregates
not-afrinic-region blocks
geo-located blocks (potentially mis-located?)
customer blocks of the 7 isp's in region
lots of slosh there...
