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Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Sep 16 17:58:15 2011
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:56:23 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <D181DDABABE57E4DB72FEE00331478643C0B75@EALPO1.ukbroadband.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> People have been bleating about routing tables sizes for years and
> everything has been fine. You could argue that the bleating has helped
> keep the size down of course, perhaps it has.
guy walks into a psychiatrist's office waving a newspaper. shrink
asks "why are you waving that newspaper?" guy responds "to keep
the elephants away." shrink says "heck, there are no elephants for
thousands of miles." guy responds "pretty effective isn't it!"