[23374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InterNIC - We put the "I" in incompetent.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Handler)
Wed Mar 17 16:51:10 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:15:43 -0500
From: Michael Handler <handler@sub-rosa.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.990314114803.145E-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> writes:
> > Michael, you should know better than that. I do not see a subnet mask on
> > these IP addresses. There is nothing stopping a Network Operator from
> > making these /32s and putting them on different networks.
>
> Nothing except community consensus that it is a *BAD* thing to pollute the
> global routing table with lots of long prefixes.
Um, the point is that they're advertised *internally* as /32, and
*externally* as part of their larger aggregate. There's no need to
announce the addresses as /32s externally to have this scheme work.
We're using this at my place of employ already, and it works quite nicely.
