[77871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sat Feb 12 13:26:51 2005
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:24:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502121025350.8534@web1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:
> I've personally dealt with a customer not too long ago who when we turned
> them up was announcing 2 /20s, a /21, a /22, and several /23s and /24s all
> deaggregated as /24s. Sprint and Qwest (their other upstreams at the
> time) apparently had no problem with this. I saw what they were doing and
> asked them why. "That's how our router consultant set it up." There was
> no technical reason for it. I helped them reaggregate their BGP
> announcements.
>
> I'll bet there are at least hundreds of similar AS's that just need to
> be prodded (or maybe even some hand holding or config help) in order to
> clean up their announcements.
It would appear that ARIN education is somehow lacking in regards to their
paying membership.
-Hank
[see my previous post]
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