[86639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAB and "private" numbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Nov 12 13:42:10 2005
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:41:43 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com,
"Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <43762C2B.8010500@unfix.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > i rant, yet again.
> >
> > what is this "the" public routing table? where does one
> > get it? in my 25 years of networking I have NEVER seen it.
>
> Have you seen the moon? Touched it? I still can't be convinced that
> pluto exists, I haven't seen it, but it appears to be there ;)
seen them both.
> > i am convinced that it is a fictional as the "public" Internet.
> > or the "DFZ" ... they do not exist, except in the fevered
> > imaginations of marketing droids... and the virus is more virulent
> > than the H5N1 strain. Note that it affects normally sane engineers
> > who KNOW better.
>
> Well I apparently have a lot of nasty viruses floating around in my body
> at http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/ I used "DFP" with which I mean:
>
> "Default Free Prefix, a prefix routed without having any smaller
> prefixes covering it. Removing such a prefix will make the
> prefix unreachable."
>
> DFZ would be the group of all DFP's.
routed where? your router? my router? until/unless
you can look at EVERY router and see this mythical DFP
in ALL of them, then i remain convinced you are deluded.
> Jeroen
--bill
