[4188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Sep 9 00:49:38 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 00:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9609082312.AA02222@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at Sep 8, 96 04:12:38 pm
> We have considered assigning a /32 to each root name server and asking
> everybody in the universe to carry these 10 or so routes in the interest
> of complete and permanent provider independence. So rather than worry
> about the /24's ... :-)
If there has to be a separate route for each one anyway, why not just
blow 253*10 addresses and announce a /24 for each root name server, even
if only one IP out of each /24 is used?
Less CPU to blow holes in filters that normally deny > /24.
Avi
