[4207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Mon Sep 9 09:20:07 1996
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 09:19:15 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609090505.BAA04880@ns2.harborcom.net> from "Bradley Dunn" at Sep 9, 96 01:06:38 am
I believe, in a limited case like this, the scarce resource is all
the time it takes many people to put in an exception for this and
the additional unreliability that exceptions cause.
A few extra routes or a few extra addresses are insignificant.
> > 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
