[4208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: does history repeat itself?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Sep 9 10:28:22 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bwatson@genuity.net
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:26:49 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609090715.AAA24159@batcave.genuity.net> from "Brett D. Watson" at Sep 9, 96 00:15:12 am
> i noticed some pretty poor aggregation in some of the most recently
> allocated address space tonight: (advertising as's withheld to
> protect the innocent/guilty)
>
> 208.201.64.0/21
> 208.201.73.0
> 208.201.88.0/21
> 208.201.97.0
> 208.201.103.0
> 208.201.112.0/22
> 208.218.64.0/20
> 210.135.160.0/20
> 210.135.192.0/22
> 210.135.224.0/20
>
> this seems especially bad with all the talk of better ways to
> allocate and advertise so that we don't waste address space. i do
> note that most of what i call poor aggregation appears to be due to
> "dual homing". are we just doomed to poor aggregation because of
> this?
>
> or maybe i'm just naive in thinking the internic is really cracking
> down on small allocations and that providers are really working hard
> to aggregate.
>
> -brett
Hmm. Maybe a neutral, 3rd-party agency to get dumps of tables from
major entities and which would send e-mail with suggested aggregations
to noc@theownerofeachoffendingasn.
I will make time to start running the route aggregator at routes.netaxs.com
again; we've been fighting a random-src-address-SYN-attacker for the last
week or two. I may have some comments on THAT for NANOG re: inter-provider
cooperation shortly.
Avi
