[31418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Waites)
Fri Sep 22 19:49:27 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:47:58 -0400 (EDT)
To: kai@pac-rim.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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From: ww@pandora.styx.org (William Waites)
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Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net> wrote:
> What 'threshold' has triggered this sudden event, with routes going
> from 60,000 to 90,000 in just 12 months? Multihoming becoming
> fashionable? Dinky-rink providers getting multihomed, and for lack
Fashionable or not, multihoming is a usefull and sound practice. The
problem is that regulatory organizations (ex. ARIN) make it very
difficult to do it properly, and so cause inefficient use of address
space and routing table bloat.
-w
