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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

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