[77852] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Feb 11 09:04:03 2005
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Stephen J. Wilcox'" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"'Frotzler, Florian'" <Florian.Frotzler@one.at>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:02:05 -0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502111152010.19794-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> any thoughts on how to fix it? my peers keep sending these to
> me and i'll even admit my customers do too. telling people
> its bad doesnt appear to have an effect, at the small end
> networks seem to collect /24s and announce them freely, at
> the large end i'm still without an explanation as to why
> large networks require so many prefixes - none of them seem
> to comment?
>
> if people arent self policing it seems the only other way is
> for the larger transit providers to stop accepting prefixes
> and telling their customers to fix their s**t. and i dont see
> them doing this.
proxy aggregation if they don't fix it.
Neil.
