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Re: The SWAMP

  • From: Jon Zeeff
  • Date: Mon Sep 09 09:23:08 1996 
I believe, in a limited case like this, the scarce resource is all
the time it takes many people to put in an exception for this and
the additional unreliability that exceptions cause.

A few extra routes or a few extra addresses are insignificant.

> > If there has to be a separate route for each one anyway, why not just 
> > blow 253*10 addresses and announce a /24 for each root name server, even 
> > if only one IP out of each /24 is used?
> > 
> > Less CPU to blow holes in filters that normally deny > /24.
> > 
> > Avi
> 
> How far does this get extended, then? What if, to encourage aggregation,
> /24s start to be filtered? Do you then blow a /23? A /22? I guess the real
> question is how do you balance between two scarce resources, router CPU and
> IPv4 address space.
> 
> -BD
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