[34457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] /24's run amuck?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Feb 7 00:41:33 2001
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:38:32 +0200
To: Pim van Riezen <pi@vuurwerk.nl>,
"Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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At 20:42 06/02/01 +0100, Pim van Riezen wrote:
Anyone have better contact inside Telstra? I sent the following about a
week ago with no response yet:
>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:30:10 +0200
>To: as1221@telstra.net, David.Woodgate@telstra.net, paull@telstra.net,
>gih@telstra.net
>From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
>Subject: Telstra and global routing table bloat
>
>AS1221 has been known for some time now to be sending out too many
>prefixes not based on CIDR boundries, thereby increasing the global router
>table size:
>
>ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description
>AS1221 1652 1215 437 26.5% TELSTRA-AS
>
>I hope Telstra can take the time to add the appropriate BGP filters so
>that the we all do not suffer from global router table bloat.
>
>Thanks,
>Hank
Thanks,
Hank
>On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > BTW who is AS 1221? That block is listed as allocated by ARIN, but ARIN
> > has nothing in the whois for them.
>
>[whois.radb.net]
>aut-num: AS1221
>as-name: TELSTRA-AS
>descr: TELSTRA-AS
>admin-c: GIH105
>tech-c: DW187
>notify: as1221@telstra.net
>mnt-by: MAINT-AS1221
>changed: David.Woodgate@telstra.net 19990506
>source: RADB
>
>aut-num: AS1221
>as-name: ASN-TELSTRA
>descr: Telstra Pty Ltd
> Locked Bag No. 5744
> GPO, Canberra, ACT, 2601
>admin-c: GH105-AP
>tech-c: DW187-AP
>remarks: AS assigned by the former InterNIC
>remarks: Object automatically converted from the APNIC(RIPE181) registry
>
>Seems some special odd transfer between ARIN and APNIC.
>
>HTH. HAND.
>Pi
