[86649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAB and "private" numbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Nov 12 22:58:56 2005
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:58:28 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0511121736330.20032@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:12:13AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> 'public routing table' == Internet
as seen from which ASN? or are they all the same?
if you don't have a more specific, or a covering prefix
and are not deluding yourself (aka Sprint circa 1994
w/ the great 192.0.0.0/3 lie) does NOT mean you have
a full routing table... it just means you have a covering
prefix or more specific prefix from each of your peers...
<voila, the DFZ> does not mean you have all routes tho.
> nothing more, nothing less. this is distinct from SIPRnet and some
> portions of NIPRnet, or other 'private' networks out there.
as alluded to earlier, "private" networks overtook the
"Internet" before... it could happen again. :)
--bill
