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Steve, Thanks for your note - yes Jeff Burgan got back to me with more information relating to the timing of a shift to a full CIDR based advertisement for Australian nets >NASA may have reasons for doing it this way. In general, we encourage >everyone to register any more-specific component pieces not needed in >the NSFNET/ANSnet configuration files in the Merit RRDB rather than in >the PRDB. We have a "no configure" option flag in the PRDB to prevent >a more specific route from being configured if people tell us, but >bypassing the PRDB for direct RRDB registration is now the preferable >option in such "no configure" cases. thanks, Geoff - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |