[20134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The number of the AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Oct 6 02:26:43 1998
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:09:54 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cp.net>
To: Aleksi Suhonen <ams@sci.fi>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: aavella@advtech.uswest.com
Mail-Followup-To: Aleksi Suhonen <ams@sci.fi>, nanog@merit.edu,
aavella@advtech.uswest.com
In-Reply-To: <199810060423.HAA19939@troi.sci.fi>; from Aleksi Suhonen on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:23:28AM +0300
On 10/05/98, Aleksi Suhonen <ams@sci.fi> wrote:
> But, and this is a considerable but, not all of the eight
> thousand ASes that are missing from the CIDR report are
> unused. There are a lot of ASes out there that are in use,
> but don't show up on a global routing table. Most of these
> are regional backbone or exchange ASes that don't themselves
> terminate any routes. They are only visible to networks
> that are connected to them.
...assuming, of course, that nobody transits those ASes to
the rest of the Internet.
> And then there's the RBL AS, 7777.
Not to be confused with the AS that shall forever live in
infamy, 7007. Anybody still filtering that one?
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