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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Frotzler, Florian wrote: > > > > > > Recent Table History > > > Date Prefixes CIDR Agg > > > 04-02-05 151613 103143 > > > 05-02-05 152142 103736 > > > 06-02-05 152231 103721 > > > 07-02-05 152353 103830 > > > 08-02-05 152514 103966 > > > 09-02-05 153855 104090 > > > 10-02-05 154283 104246 > > > 11-02-05 154341 104240 > > <...> > > > > ~ +3000 routes in one week? Anyone else frightened by this? > > > > Florian > > any thoughts on how to fix it? my peers keep sending these to me and i'll even > admit my customers do too. telling people its bad doesnt appear to have an > effect, at the small end networks seem to collect /24s and announce them freely, > at the large end i'm still without an explanation as to why large networks > require so many prefixes - none of them seem to comment? > > if people arent self policing it seems the only other way is for the larger > transit providers to stop accepting prefixes and telling their customers to fix > their s**t. and i dont see them doing this. It seems to me they get paid to carry prefixes by their customers. And their peers listen to the prefixes because they make money by using those prefixes. So, to the extent you make money listening to them, use the routes. And if they start to cause you problems you will have to take corrective action to stablize your network, as was done a long time ago (internet time): http://www.merit.edu/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/1995-09/msg00047.html (link grabbed at random from the archives, I'm sure there are better posts that actually list the full old school sprint filters.) However, if you are the one filtering and all your competitors figure out how to handle 154,000 routes then you will be at a competitive disadvantage. Coincidentally, the largest networks also spend the most with their vendors and get to tell the vendors what they want in the next generation of boxes they buy. Mike. +----------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -----------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 510 580 4100 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting Colocation Fax 510 580 4151 | | [email protected] http://www.he.net | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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