[52300] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cogent service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Scalzo)
Mon Sep 23 17:51:11 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:48:05 -0400
From: "Frank Scalzo" <frank.scalzo@amerinex.net>
To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg@exigengroup.com>,
"Stephen Stuart" <stuart@tech.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
This was a totally bogus reason from the very beginning. Given that real
backbones carry no prefixes longer than 24 bits the "long" lookup in
Last numbers I saw put 701 at over 100k prefixes in the /25-/32 range.
The more correct statement is backbones carry no external prefixes
longer then /24. The point is there can be a HUGE number of internal
prefixes that can make a difference. I will admit 701 route bloat, is
not a typical example.
