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RE: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

  • From: Skywing
  • Date: Mon Dec 22 22:02:21 2008 
I am sure that there are foolish people doing foolish things somewhere on the Internet.  But perhaps Joe had knowledge of a specific example && possibly "reasoning" from said example as to why they were using a broken configuration as that?

– S

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Ward <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 19:45
To: nanog list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet


On 23/12/2008, at 2:39 PM, Joe Provo wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:34:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote:
> [snip]
>> Let me rephrase; Are there people who are filtering /24s received
>> from
>> eBGP peers who do not have a default route?
>
> of course.


Curiously, it was really meant as a rhetorical question where the
answer was "no".

Why are people doing this? Are they lacking clue, or, is there some
reasonable purpose?

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Nathan Ward