[4176] in North American Network Operators' Group
The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Sun Sep 8 18:43:47 1996
From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley@dunn.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 18:44:09 -0400
I was doing my daily traceroutes to see who was down today, and i noticed
some interesting things. One thing I noticed was that:
c.root-servers.net
e.root-servers.net
g.root-servers.net
i.root-servers.net
all appear to be in the "twd", as well as being in the swamp. A well-known
router vendor's web site also appeared to be in this category.
Now I don't run anything nearing a real router, so I checked
route-server.cerf.net, and sure enough they are being advertised as /24s. I
realize renumbering the root servers is not really a good place to
start.:-) Yet I think it shows what a massive task we have ahead of us, if
we are to make progress in aggregating 192/8. I also think it would be hard
to convince someone to renumber out of a /24 in 192, when they can say,
"well almost half of the root servers haven't renumbered, why should I?".
Just my observations. I'll crawl back into my little stub of the 'net and
resume being a spectator. :)
-BD
