[4379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top-50 Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Sep 14 13:56:38 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:52:23 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> wrote:
> 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.
Due to a progressing loss of clue in some NSPs. Like all those 144.228/24s
which should never make it out of ISIS. Some NSPs never had any clue
in the first place, though (hm, 174).
I have a theory on why it happens. Tony B, Sean, Andrew, me are just
points in case.
--vadim