[2142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Addr: NET99 sabotages IGC's routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rwoundy@vnet.IBM.COM)
Mon Mar 18 14:35:31 1996
Date: 18 Mar 96 14:02:15 EST
From: <rwoundy@vnet.IBM.COM>
To: North American Network Operators <nanog@merit.edu>
*** Resending note of 03/18/96 12:43
Folks,
May I inject some list-relevant discussion to this cat-fight?
>> Fortunately, MCI was able to reconfigure our access lists at their
>>router to allow us to broadcast competing more specific routes for each
>>individual class C in the CIDR block. Thus (more or less) restoring IGC's
>>net connectivity.
>More specifics aren't competing. They take precedence. Sometimes it's
>better to be silent and thought dumb...
I don't care to choose sides in this dispute.
But as a consequence of this dispute, the size of the standard
default-free route tables has grown as a result of the IGC/MCI
de-aggregation of routes. This is a bad thing, right?
Looking at IBM/Advantis's router at MAE-East, for example,
I see 205.198/16 from (AS3830), 205.198.244/22 from (AS3561 AS5799),
and 205.198.244/24 from (AS3561 AS5799). AS3830 == Net99,
AS3561 == MCI, and AS5799 == IGC.
Seems like the rest of the Internet is the long-term victim here...
-- Richard Woundy, (not speaking for) IBM
