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RE: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Thu Oct 16 10:32:26 2003

From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:20:09 -0500
Reply-To: pfry@swbell.net
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On 16 Oct 2003 at 9:44, McBurnett, Jim wrote:
[...]
> We are annoucing a /24 from the 66 /8 block and I have only found 2 
ISP's 
> (according the the netlantis project) that can't reach me.
> We are multihomed. I suspect that may be due to aggregation.
> But even with our backup online, I still saw the routes propogate via 
> Netlantis..
> 
> Or am I out in left field going nuts?

  That's not bad at all.  "Many" may be overstated.  But if Charter 
announced a supernet around you those two dropouts should be able to 
reach you too.  Better, eh?
  If your luck's anything like mine then the ones you lose are the 
ones you want.

Peter E. Fry


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