[4376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top-50 Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sat Sep 14 12:31:43 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Sep 1996 08:56:59 PDT."
<199609141557.IAA17575@trix.cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:29:07 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> Remember, this just looks at the classful routes and tries to cidrize
> them at the origin AS level. It assumes no holes either so it's quite
> possible to get a lot more back. Yes there are 31K classful routes. That's
> either a lot of legacy or not a lot of aggregation.
> --Tony
Given that the routing table stood at 28000 when CIDRD was killed off, I'd
say that there have either been some recent classful allocations, or a lot
of ancient networks suddenly getting advertised.
