[4189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Mon Sep 9 01:06:40 1996
From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley@dunn.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:06:38 -0400
> 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
How far does this get extended, then? What if, to encourage aggregation,
/24s start to be filtered? Do you then blow a /23? A /22? I guess the real
question is how do you balance between two scarce resources, router CPU and
IPv4 address space.
-BD
