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[NANOG-announce] REMINDER: Upcoming NANOG mail list maintenance notification - 18-Sept-2012
by Randy Epstein 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Reminder of the upcoming Mail List service scheduled for Tuesday, September 18, 2012 beginning at 6 am Eastern, expected to last no more than 30 minutes. Regards, Randy Epstein NANOG CC Chair On behalf of the NANOG Communications Committee _______________________________________________ NANOG-announce mailing list NANOG-announce(a)nanog.org https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-announce

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GoDaddy down again?
by Takashi Tome 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi All, Does anyone knows whether GoDaddy is having problems again? (I'm not able to reach some sites). Thanks Takashi Tome

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Re: Big Temporary Networks
by Masatoshi Enomoto 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Masataka Ohta <mohta(a)necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>: >Nick Hilliard wrote: > >>> Thus, protocols heavily depending on broadcast/multicast, such >>> as ND, will suffer. >> >> ok, you've trolled me enough to ask why ND is worse than ARP on a wavelan >> network - in your humble opinion? > >Because, with IPv4: > > 1) broadcast/multicast from a STA attacked to an AP is > actually unicast to the AP and reliably received by the > AP (and relayed unreliably to other STAs). That is, a > broadcast ARP request from the STA to the AP is reliably > received by the AP. > > 2) the AP knows MAC and IP addresses of STAs > > 3) ARP and DHCP replies are usually unicast > >ARP and DHCP usually work. > >For an unusual case of ARP for other STAs, collisions do >increase initial latencies, but as refreshes are attempted >several times, there will be no latter latencies. > >OTOH, IPv6 requires many multicast received by STAs: RA and NS >for DAD, for example. > >Worse, minimum intervals of ND messages are often very large, >which means a lot of delay occurs when a message is lost. > > Masataka Ohta >

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Re: Big Temporary Networks
by Måns Nilsson 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:15:26PM -0400 Quoting Eric Adler (eaptech(a)gmail.com) > Are you working with locally originated video or video that originates as > DVB-T? > > I'm looking at a similar project to replace NTSC distribution around the > facility where I work (locally originated, DVB-S[2] receive, ATSC receive, > and even NTSC receive) with an IP multicast system. > > I'd be interested in discussing options, caveats, and nuance further with > all of those interested but I fear we're drifting off-topic for this list > (and this thread). The only real problem is rights. The tech is easy. Get a last years PC, install as much tuners as you need, and install the right software. First google hit, more or less: http://wiki.arts.usyd.edu.au/meta/index.php/Building_a_DVB_streaming_server -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 Should I start with the time I SWITCHED personalities with a BEATNIK hair stylist or my failure to refer five TEENAGERS to a good OCULIST?

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Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)
by A. Pishdadi 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hello Everyone, We purchase 10Gig waves for transport out of our datacenter and are trying to figure out why the taxes on the circuits are so much. We are paying around 60% additional in taxes and fee's on top of the cost of the circuit. Ofcourse when we were negotiating pricing , it seemed like a great price until we got our first bill, they forgot to mention that we would be paying such fees. It seems like these taxes would be for companies who would be using transport services for voice, but we are all data. Is there any way to get a tax exempt status? How come the same fee's do not apply to dark fiber? We are in process of getting dark fiber to replace the transport circuits but its going to take quite some time as we have a few more years on some of the contracts. The dark fiber we do have there is no taxes at all. Can anyone shed any light on this?

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Layer2 over Layer3
by Philip Lavine 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

To all, I am trying to extend a layer2 connection over Layer 3 so I can have redundant Layer connectivity between my HQ and colo site. The reason I need this is so I can give the "appeareance" that there is one gateway and that both data centers can share the same Layer3 subnet (which I am announcing via BGP to 2 different vendors). I have 2 ASR's. Will EoMPLS work or is there another option? Philip

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BGP Update Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

BGP Update Report Interval: 06-Sep-12 -to- 13-Sep-12 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASN Upds % Upds/Pfx AS-Name 1 - AS30137 94685 5.1% 1552.2 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 2 - AS6517 54436 3.0% 273.5 -- RELIANCEGLOBALCOM - Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc 3 - AS9829 53829 2.9% 42.3 -- BSNL-NIB National Internet Backbone 4 - AS8402 47127 2.5% 27.0 -- CORBINA-AS OJSC "Vimpelcom" 5 - AS22561 25881 1.4% 184.9 -- DIGITAL-TELEPORT - Digital Teleport Inc. 6 - AS1637 21255 1.1% 590.4 -- DNIC-AS-01637 - Headquarters, USAISC 7 - AS24560 19948 1.1% 21.3 -- AIRTELBROADBAND-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia Services 8 - AS13118 19913 1.1% 19913.0 -- ASN-YARTELECOM OJSC Rostelecom 9 - AS5800 14966 0.8% 58.7 -- DNIC-ASBLK-05800-06055 - DoD Network Information Center 10 - AS28573 13156 0.7% 7.8 -- NET Servicos de Comunicao S.A. 11 - AS21599 12839 0.7% 118.9 -- NETDIRECT S.A. 12 - AS2697 11828 0.6% 87.0 -- ERX-ERNET-AS Education and Research Network 13 - AS10198 11675 0.6% 2335.0 -- CUP-AS-KR Catholic University of Pusan 14 - AS14420 10070 0.5% 18.9 -- CORPORACION NACIONAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES - CNT EP 15 - AS6629 10017 0.5% 5008.5 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA 16 - AS2118 9684 0.5% 6.9 -- RELCOM-AS OOO "NPO Relcom" 17 - AS36998 9397 0.5% 18.4 -- SDN-MOBITEL 18 - AS38547 9282 0.5% 21.5 -- WITRIBE-AS-AP WITRIBE PAKISTAN LIMITED 19 - AS27947 8993 0.5% 26.8 -- Telconet S.A 20 - AS25620 8573 0.5% 59.1 -- COTAS LTDA. TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS (Updates per announced prefix) Rank ASN Upds % Upds/Pfx AS-Name 1 - AS13118 19913 1.1% 19913.0 -- ASN-YARTELECOM OJSC Rostelecom 2 - AS6629 10017 0.5% 5008.5 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA 3 - AS38920 7067 0.4% 3533.5 -- TURKLANDBANK-TR TURKLANDBANK 4 - AS14680 7017 0.4% 2339.0 -- REALE-6 - Auction.com 5 - AS10198 11675 0.6% 2335.0 -- CUP-AS-KR Catholic University of Pusan 6 - AS44410 6789 0.4% 2263.0 -- ENTEKHAB-AS ENTEKHAB INDUSTRIAL GROUP 7 - AS6197 2182 0.1% 2182.0 -- BATI-ATL - BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc 8 - AS30137 94685 5.1% 1552.2 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 9 - AS22753 3074 0.2% 1537.0 -- REDHAT-STUTTGART REDHAT Stuttgart 10 - AS36948 3069 0.2% 1534.5 -- KENIC 11 - AS25911 1402 0.1% 1402.0 -- TALISMAN-CH3 - TALISMAN ENERGY INC. 12 - AS36529 2564 0.1% 1282.0 -- AXXA-RACKCO - Rackco.com 13 - AS41733 7682 0.4% 1097.4 -- ZTELECOM-AS JSC "Z-Telecom" 14 - AS48696 1006 0.1% 1006.0 -- TEMP-AS TEMP Ltd. 15 - AS56763 1002 0.1% 1002.0 -- INFOTELL-AS Infotell-Telecom Ltd 16 - AS29126 940 0.1% 940.0 -- DATIQ-AS Datiq B.V. 17 - AS38857 1713 0.1% 856.5 -- ESOFT-TRANSIT-AS-AP e.Soft Technologies Ltd. 18 - AS29524 806 0.0% 806.0 -- GUILBERT GUILBERT AS NUMBER 19 - AS26260 783 0.0% 783.0 -- WAUSAU-BENEFITS-INC - Wausau Benefits, Inc 20 - AS32244 730 0.0% 730.0 -- LIQUID-WEB-INC - Liquid Web, Inc. TOP 20 Unstable Prefixes Rank Prefix Upds % Origin AS -- AS Name 1 - 109.161.64.0/19 19913 1.0% AS13118 -- ASN-YARTELECOM OJSC Rostelecom 2 - 184.159.130.0/23 13098 0.7% AS22561 -- DIGITAL-TELEPORT - Digital Teleport Inc. 3 - 184.157.224.0/19 10762 0.6% AS22561 -- DIGITAL-TELEPORT - Digital Teleport Inc. 4 - 200.46.0.0/19 10122 0.5% AS21599 -- NETDIRECT S.A. 5 - 199.250.214.0/24 8213 0.4% AS6517 -- RELIANCEGLOBALCOM - Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc 6 - 199.250.205.0/24 8209 0.4% AS6517 -- RELIANCEGLOBALCOM - Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc 7 - 199.250.193.0/24 8208 0.4% AS6517 -- RELIANCEGLOBALCOM - Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc 8 - 199.250.192.0/24 8208 0.4% AS6517 -- RELIANCEGLOBALCOM - Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc 9 - 202.41.70.0/24 7879 0.4% AS2697 -- ERX-ERNET-AS Education and Research Network 10 - 74.91.52.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 11 - 74.91.59.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 12 - 74.91.56.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 13 - 74.91.61.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 14 - 74.91.57.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 15 - 74.91.58.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 16 - 74.91.63.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 17 - 74.91.54.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 18 - 74.91.60.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 19 - 74.91.53.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 20 - 74.91.62.0/24 7877 0.4% AS30137 -- SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC Details at http://bgpupdates.potaroo.net ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)nanog.org eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)apops.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org

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The Cidr Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

This report has been generated at Fri Sep 14 21:13:03 2012 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 07-09-12 427365 246274 08-09-12 428107 246515 09-09-12 428524 246572 10-09-12 428665 246586 11-09-12 428741 246649 12-09-12 429120 246892 13-09-12 428900 246353 14-09-12 429020 246568 AS Summary 42211 Number of ASes in routing system 17607 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix 3329 Largest number of prefixes announced by an AS AS6389 : BELLSOUTH-NET-BLK - BellSouth.net Inc. 113311968 Largest address span announced by an AS (/32s) AS4134 : CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street Aggregation Summary The algorithm used in this report proposes aggregation only when there is a precise match using the AS path, so as to preserve traffic transit policies. Aggregation is also proposed across non-advertised address space ('holes'). --- 14Sep12 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description Table 429249 246442 182807 42.6% All ASes AS6389 3329 188 3141 94.4% BELLSOUTH-NET-BLK - BellSouth.net Inc. AS28573 2144 58 2086 97.3% NET Servicos de Comunicao S.A. AS4766 2981 941 2040 68.4% KIXS-AS-KR Korea Telecom AS22773 1884 161 1723 91.5% ASN-CXA-ALL-CCI-22773-RDC - Cox Communications Inc. AS17974 2339 618 1721 73.6% TELKOMNET-AS2-AP PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia AS7029 3154 1480 1674 53.1% WINDSTREAM - Windstream Communications Inc AS18566 2085 423 1662 79.7% COVAD - Covad Communications Co. AS2118 1401 14 1387 99.0% RELCOM-AS OOO "NPO Relcom" AS10620 2117 784 1333 63.0% Telmex Colombia S.A. AS4323 1582 392 1190 75.2% TWTC - tw telecom holdings, inc. AS7303 1565 451 1114 71.2% Telecom Argentina S.A. AS1785 1915 821 1094 57.1% AS-PAETEC-NET - PaeTec Communications, Inc. AS4755 1617 545 1072 66.3% TATACOMM-AS TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP AS7552 1129 210 919 81.4% VIETEL-AS-AP Vietel Corporation AS8151 1583 708 875 55.3% Uninet S.A. de C.V. AS18101 941 158 783 83.2% RELIANCE-COMMUNICATIONS-IN Reliance Communications Ltd.DAKC MUMBAI AS4808 1126 355 771 68.5% CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network China169 Beijing Province Network AS13977 857 119 738 86.1% CTELCO - FAIRPOINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AS6458 749 42 707 94.4% Telgua AS15557 1226 560 666 54.3% LDCOMNET Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone S.A AS36998 772 124 648 83.9% SDN-MOBITEL AS855 683 52 631 92.4% CANET-ASN-4 - Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Inc. AS3356 1105 474 631 57.1% LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications AS17676 710 85 625 88.0% GIGAINFRA Softbank BB Corp. AS22561 1027 428 599 58.3% DIGITAL-TELEPORT - Digital Teleport Inc. AS19262 1002 404 598 59.7% VZGNI-TRANSIT - Verizon Online LLC AS24560 1041 443 598 57.4% AIRTELBROADBAND-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia Services AS7545 1758 1184 574 32.7% TPG-INTERNET-AP TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS3549 1008 435 573 56.8% GBLX Global Crossing Ltd. AS30036 1388 824 564 40.6% MEDIACOM-ENTERPRISE-BUSINESS - Mediacom Communications Corp Total 46218 13481 32737 70.8% Top 30 total Possible Bogus Routes 5.254.128.0/24 AS42708 PORTLANE Portlane Networks AB 10.86.64.32/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 10.86.64.36/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 10.86.65.32/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 10.86.65.36/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 10.255.255.0/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 10.255.255.4/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 10.255.255.8/30 AS65530 -Private Use AS- 14.192.0.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.4.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.8.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.12.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.16.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.20.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.24.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.28.0/22 AS45464 NEXTWEB-AS-AP Room 201, TGU Bldg 27.112.114.0/24 AS23884 PROENNET-AS Proimage Engineering and Communication Co.,Ltd. 41.220.80.0/24 AS38925 DAC-AS G.I.T. TELECOM LIMITED 41.220.81.0/24 AS38925 DAC-AS G.I.T. TELECOM LIMITED 41.220.94.0/23 AS42235 IDC-AS Intra Data Communication 41.222.80.0/21 AS37110 moztel-as 41.223.108.0/22 AS36966 EDL_AS Edgenet AS 62.61.220.0/24 AS24974 TACHYON-EU Tachyon Europe BV 62.61.221.0/24 AS24974 TACHYON-EU Tachyon Europe BV 64.66.32.0/20 AS18864 64.187.208.0/24 AS174 COGENT Cogent/PSI 64.187.209.0/24 AS23005 SWITCH-COMMUNICATIONS - SWITCH Communications Group LLC 66.171.32.0/20 AS705 UUNET - MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business 66.180.239.0/24 AS35888 VIGNETTE - VIGNETTE CORPORATION 66.207.32.0/20 AS23011 66.245.176.0/20 AS19318 NJIIX-AS-1 - NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 66.251.128.0/24 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.133.0/24 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.134.0/24 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.136.0/21 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.140.0/24 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.141.0/24 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.142.0/24 AS33227 BLUEBRIDGE-NETWORKS - Blue Bridge Networks 66.251.143.0/24 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 69.46.224.0/20 AS32592 HUNT-BROTHERS-OF-LOUISIANA-LLC - Hunt Brothers 69.46.233.0/24 AS32592 HUNT-BROTHERS-OF-LOUISIANA-LLC - Hunt Brothers 69.46.236.0/24 AS32592 HUNT-BROTHERS-OF-LOUISIANA-LLC - Hunt Brothers 70.34.112.0/20 AS27589 MOJOHOST - MOJOHOST 71.19.134.0/23 AS3313 INET-AS BT Italia S.p.A. 72.35.224.0/22 AS30097 NUWAVE - NuWave 72.35.229.0/24 AS30188 TELEVERGENCE - Televergence Solutions Inc. 72.35.232.0/21 AS30097 NUWAVE - NuWave 72.44.16.0/20 AS15054 NORTHEAST-TEXAS-BROADBAND-LLC - Northeast Texas Broadband, LLC 74.91.48.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.49.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.50.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.51.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.52.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.53.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.54.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.55.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.56.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.57.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.58.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.59.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.60.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.61.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.62.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.91.63.0/24 AS30137 SEA-BROADBAND - Sea Broadband, LLC 74.115.124.0/23 AS46540 74.115.126.0/24 AS11260 EASTLINK-HSI - EastLink 81.22.64.0/20 AS5511 OPENTRANSIT France Telecom S.A. 82.101.160.0/19 AS5511 OPENTRANSIT France Telecom S.A. 100.100.0.0/24 AS4847 CNIX-AP China Networks Inter-Exchange 110.34.44.0/22 AS12653 COMTONET KB Impuls Hellas S.A. 116.206.72.0/24 AS6461 MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Network 116.206.85.0/24 AS6461 MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Network 116.206.103.0/24 AS6461 MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Network 117.120.56.0/21 AS4755 TATACOMM-AS TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP 121.46.0.0/16 AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street 142.54.0.0/19 AS23498 CDSI - Cogeco Data Services LP 172.254.254.0/24 AS26274 187.252.0.0/24 AS28557 Cablemas Telecomunicaciones SA de CV 187.252.1.0/24 AS28557 Cablemas Telecomunicaciones SA de CV 192.0.0.0/24 AS14745 INTERNAP-BLOCK-4 - Internap Network Services Corporation 194.0.58.0/24 AS49962 ZERO zero.net.uk Ltd 198.18.0.0/15 AS14745 INTERNAP-BLOCK-4 - Internap Network Services Corporation 198.51.100.0/24 AS14745 INTERNAP-BLOCK-4 - Internap Network Services Corporation 200.1.112.0/24 AS29754 GO2TEL GO2TEL.COM INC. 200.6.49.0/24 AS23148 TERREMARK Terremark 200.53.0.0/19 AS13878 Diveo do Brasil Telecomunicacoes Ltda 200.58.248.0/21 AS27849 200.75.184.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.185.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.186.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.187.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.188.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.189.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.190.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 200.75.191.0/24 AS14754 Telgua 202.1.224.0/24 AS10097 FLOWCOM Flow Communications 2/541 Kent St Sydney NSW 2000 202.8.106.0/24 AS9530 SHINSEGAE-AS SHINSEGAE I&C Co., Ltd. 202.58.113.0/24 AS19161 202.83.120.0/21 AS37972 202.83.124.0/24 AS37972 202.83.125.0/24 AS37972 202.83.126.0/24 AS37972 202.94.1.0/24 AS4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network China169 Beijing Province Network 202.174.125.0/24 AS9498 BBIL-AP BHARTI Airtel Ltd. 202.176.1.0/24 AS9942 COMINDICO-AP SOUL Converged Communications Australia 202.179.134.0/24 AS23966 LDN-AS-PK LINKdotNET Telecom Limited 203.0.113.0/24 AS14745 INTERNAP-BLOCK-4 - Internap Network Services Corporation 203.23.1.0/24 AS18111 NETSPEED-AS-AP Netspeed Internet Communications 203.24.38.0/24 AS18111 NETSPEED-AS-AP Netspeed Internet Communications 203.30.127.0/24 AS18111 NETSPEED-AS-AP Netspeed Internet Communications 203.32.86.0/23 AS18111 NETSPEED-AS-AP Netspeed Internet Communications 203.32.86.0/24 AS18111 NETSPEED-AS-AP Netspeed Internet Communications 203.32.87.0/24 AS18111 NETSPEED-AS-AP Netspeed Internet Communications 203.32.188.0/24 AS1221 ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd 203.142.219.0/24 AS45149 204.9.116.0/22 AS30097 NUWAVE - NuWave 204.10.88.0/21 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 204.10.92.0/23 AS30097 NUWAVE - NuWave 204.10.94.0/23 AS30097 NUWAVE - NuWave 204.14.0.0/21 AS30693 EONIX-CORPORATION-AS-PHX01-WWW-INFINITIE-NET - Eonix Corporation 204.14.0.0/24 AS30693 EONIX-CORPORATION-AS-PHX01-WWW-INFINITIE-NET - Eonix Corporation 204.14.2.0/24 AS30693 EONIX-CORPORATION-AS-PHX01-WWW-INFINITIE-NET - Eonix Corporation 204.14.3.0/24 AS30693 EONIX-CORPORATION-AS-PHX01-WWW-INFINITIE-NET - Eonix Corporation 205.175.214.0/24 AS5583 ORANGE-BUSINESS-SERVICES-BENELUX France Telecom S.A. 206.197.184.0/24 AS23304 DATOTEL-STL-AS - Datotel LLC, a NetLabs LLC Company 207.174.131.0/24 AS26116 INDRA - Indra's Net Inc 207.174.132.0/23 AS26116 INDRA - Indra's Net Inc 207.174.152.0/23 AS26116 INDRA - Indra's Net Inc 207.174.154.0/24 AS26116 INDRA - Indra's Net Inc 207.174.155.0/24 AS26116 INDRA - Indra's Net Inc 207.174.200.0/24 AS22658 EARTHNET - Earthnet, Inc. 207.174.248.0/21 AS6653 PRIVATEI - privateI, LLC 207.231.96.0/19 AS11194 NUNETPA - NuNet Inc. 208.83.53.0/24 AS40569 YGOMI-AS - Ygomi LLC 208.93.144.0/21 AS30693 EONIX-CORPORATION-AS-PHX01-WWW-INFINITIE-NET - Eonix Corporation 208.93.151.0/24 AS30693 EONIX-CORPORATION-AS-PHX01-WWW-INFINITIE-NET - Eonix Corporation 209.148.64.0/19 AS13773 TELNETCOMM - Telnet Communications 209.177.64.0/20 AS6461 MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Network 209.213.0.0/20 AS33005 ELTOPIA - Eltopia.com, LLC 213.150.204.0/24 AS29338 AFOL-AS Used by Africaonline Operations 216.12.160.0/20 AS26627 AS-PILOSOFT - Pilosoft, Inc. 216.21.160.0/20 AS27876 American Data Networks 216.146.0.0/19 AS11915 TELWEST-NETWORK-SVCS-STATIC - TEL WEST COMMUNICATIONS LLC 216.194.160.0/20 AS27876 American Data Networks Please see http://www.cidr-report.org for the full report ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)nanog.org eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)apops.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org

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Weekly Routing Table Report
by Routing Analysis Role Account 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, TRNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to bgp-stats(a)lists.apnic.net For historical data, please see http://thyme.rand.apnic.net. If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <pfsinoz(a)gmail.com>. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 15 Sep, 2012 Report Website: http://thyme.rand.apnic.net Detailed Analysis: http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/ Analysis Summary ---------------- BGP routing table entries examined: 426606 Prefixes after maximum aggregation: 177882 Deaggregation factor: 2.40 Unique aggregates announced to Internet: 207475 Total ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 42113 Prefixes per ASN: 10.13 Origin-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 33613 Origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 15760 Transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 5611 Transit-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 135 Average AS path length visible in the Internet Routing Table: 4.6 Max AS path length visible: 32 Max AS path prepend of ASN ( 48687) 24 Prefixes from unregistered ASNs in the Routing Table: 716 Unregistered ASNs in the Routing Table: 253 Number of 32-bit ASNs allocated by the RIRs: 3277 Number of 32-bit ASNs visible in the Routing Table: 2889 Prefixes from 32-bit ASNs in the Routing Table: 7687 Special use prefixes present in the Routing Table: 0 Prefixes being announced from unallocated address space: 177 Number of addresses announced to Internet: 2595714508 Equivalent to 154 /8s, 183 /16s and 117 /24s Percentage of available address space announced: 70.1 Percentage of allocated address space announced: 70.1 Percentage of available address space allocated: 100.0 Percentage of address space in use by end-sites: 93.6 Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 150375 APNIC Region Analysis Summary ----------------------------- Prefixes being announced by APNIC Region ASes: 102576 Total APNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 32472 APNIC Deaggregation factor: 3.16 Prefixes being announced from the APNIC address blocks: 103203 Unique aggregates announced from the APNIC address blocks: 42696 APNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 4756 APNIC Prefixes per ASN: 21.70 APNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 1234 APNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 768 Average APNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.6 Max APNIC Region AS path length visible: 26 Number of APNIC region 32-bit ASNs visible in the Routing Table: 309 Number of APNIC addresses announced to Internet: 707879232 Equivalent to 42 /8s, 49 /16s and 97 /24s Percentage of available APNIC address space announced: 82.7 APNIC AS Blocks 4608-4864, 7467-7722, 9216-10239, 17408-18431 (pre-ERX allocations) 23552-24575, 37888-38911, 45056-46079, 55296-56319, 58368-59391, 131072-133119 APNIC Address Blocks 1/8, 14/8, 27/8, 36/8, 39/8, 42/8, 43/8, 49/8, 58/8, 59/8, 60/8, 61/8, 101/8, 103/8, 106/8, 110/8, 111/8, 112/8, 113/8, 114/8, 115/8, 116/8, 117/8, 118/8, 119/8, 120/8, 121/8, 122/8, 123/8, 124/8, 125/8, 126/8, 133/8, 150/8, 153/8, 163/8, 171/8, 175/8, 180/8, 182/8, 183/8, 202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 218/8, 219/8, 220/8, 221/8, 222/8, 223/8, ARIN Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by ARIN Region ASes: 154269 Total ARIN prefixes after maximum aggregation: 78053 ARIN Deaggregation factor: 1.98 Prefixes being announced from the ARIN address blocks: 155263 Unique aggregates announced from the ARIN address blocks: 69144 ARIN Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 15238 ARIN Prefixes per ASN: 10.19 ARIN Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 5745 ARIN Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1599 Average ARIN Region AS path length visible: 4.1 Max ARIN Region AS path length visible: 24 Number of ARIN region 32-bit ASNs visible in the Routing Table: 17 Number of ARIN addresses announced to Internet: 1084171392 Equivalent to 64 /8s, 159 /16s and 36 /24s Percentage of available ARIN address space announced: 57.4 ARIN AS Blocks 1-1876, 1902-2042, 2044-2046, 2048-2106 (pre-ERX allocations) 2138-2584, 2615-2772, 2823-2829, 2880-3153 3354-4607, 4865-5119, 5632-6655, 6912-7466 7723-8191, 10240-12287, 13312-15359, 16384-17407 18432-20479, 21504-23551, 25600-26591, 26624-27647, 29696-30719, 31744-33791 35840-36863, 39936-40959, 46080-47103 53248-55295, 393216-394239 ARIN Address Blocks 3/8, 4/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 11/8, 12/8, 13/8, 15/8, 16/8, 17/8, 18/8, 19/8, 20/8, 21/8, 22/8, 23/8, 24/8, 26/8, 28/8, 29/8, 30/8, 32/8, 33/8, 34/8, 35/8, 38/8, 40/8, 44/8, 45/8, 47/8, 48/8, 50/8, 52/8, 53/8, 54/8, 55/8, 56/8, 57/8, 63/8, 64/8, 65/8, 66/8, 67/8, 68/8, 69/8, 70/8, 71/8, 72/8, 73/8, 74/8, 75/8, 76/8, 96/8, 97/8, 98/8, 99/8, 100/8, 104/8, 107/8, 108/8, 128/8, 129/8, 130/8, 131/8, 132/8, 134/8, 135/8, 136/8, 137/8, 138/8, 139/8, 140/8, 142/8, 143/8, 144/8, 146/8, 147/8, 148/8, 149/8, 152/8, 155/8, 156/8, 157/8, 158/8, 159/8, 160/8, 161/8, 162/8, 164/8, 165/8, 166/8, 167/8, 168/8, 169/8, 170/8, 172/8, 173/8, 174/8, 184/8, 192/8, 198/8, 199/8, 204/8, 205/8, 206/8, 207/8, 208/8, 209/8, 214/8, 215/8, 216/8, RIPE Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by RIPE Region ASes: 108355 Total RIPE prefixes after maximum aggregation: 56640 RIPE Deaggregation factor: 1.91 Prefixes being announced from the RIPE address blocks: 110819 Unique aggregates announced from the RIPE address blocks: 70085 RIPE Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 16853 RIPE Prefixes per ASN: 6.58 RIPE Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 8165 RIPE Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 2711 Average RIPE Region AS path length visible: 5.1 Max RIPE Region AS path length visible: 32 Number of RIPE region 32-bit ASNs visible in the Routing Table: 1876 Number of RIPE addresses announced to Internet: 645372900 Equivalent to 38 /8s, 119 /16s and 155 /24s Percentage of available RIPE address space announced: 93.8 RIPE AS Blocks 1877-1901, 2043, 2047, 2107-2136, 2585-2614 (pre-ERX allocations) 2773-2822, 2830-2879, 3154-3353, 5377-5631 6656-6911, 8192-9215, 12288-13311, 15360-16383 20480-21503, 24576-25599, 28672-29695 30720-31743, 33792-35839, 38912-39935 40960-45055, 47104-52223, 56320-58367 59392-61439, 196608-199679 RIPE Address Blocks 2/8, 5/8, 25/8, 31/8, 37/8, 46/8, 51/8, 62/8, 77/8, 78/8, 79/8, 80/8, 81/8, 82/8, 83/8, 84/8, 85/8, 86/8, 87/8, 88/8, 89/8, 90/8, 91/8, 92/8, 93/8, 94/8, 95/8, 109/8, 141/8, 145/8, 151/8, 176/8, 178/8, 185/8, 188/8, 193/8, 194/8, 195/8, 212/8, 213/8, 217/8, LACNIC Region Analysis Summary ------------------------------ Prefixes being announced by LACNIC Region ASes: 43765 Total LACNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 8447 LACNIC Deaggregation factor: 5.18 Prefixes being announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 46833 Unique aggregates announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 21932 LACNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1647 LACNIC Prefixes per ASN: 28.44 LACNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 442 LACNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 324 Average LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.7 Max LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 25 Number of LACNIC region 32-bit ASNs visible in the Routing Table: 681 Number of LACNIC addresses announced to Internet: 116179240 Equivalent to 6 /8s, 236 /16s and 193 /24s Percentage of available LACNIC address space announced: 69.2 LACNIC AS Blocks 26592-26623, 27648-28671, 52224-53247, 262144-263167 plus ERX transfers LACNIC Address Blocks 177/8, 179/8, 181/8, 186/8, 187/8, 189/8, 190/8, 191/8, 200/8, 201/8, AfriNIC Region Analysis Summary ------------------------------- Prefixes being announced by AfriNIC Region ASes: 9832 Total AfriNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 2213 AfriNIC Deaggregation factor: 4.44 Prefixes being announced from the AfriNIC address blocks: 10311 Unique aggregates announced from the AfriNIC address blocks: 3470 AfriNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 562 AfriNIC Prefixes per ASN: 18.35 AfriNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 174 AfriNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 128 Average AfriNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.6 Max AfriNIC Region AS path length visible: 25 Number of AfriNIC region 32-bit ASNs visible in the Routing Table: 6 Number of AfriNIC addresses announced to Internet: 41805056 Equivalent to 2 /8s, 125 /16s and 229 /24s Percentage of available AfriNIC address space announced: 41.5 AfriNIC AS Blocks 36864-37887, 327680-328703 & ERX transfers AfriNIC Address Blocks 41/8, 102/8, 105/8, 154/8, 196/8, 197/8, APNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ---------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 4766 2979 11429 904 Korea Telecom (KIX) 17974 2339 702 54 PT TELEKOMUNIKASI INDONESIA 7545 1757 301 86 TPG Internet Pty Ltd 4755 1617 387 162 TATA Communications formerly 9829 1333 1106 41 BSNL National Internet Backbo 9583 1177 87 513 Sify Limited 7552 1129 1062 11 Vietel Corporation 4808 1126 2050 320 CNCGROUP IP network: China169 24560 1040 385 159 Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia 9498 1009 310 73 BHARTI Airtel Ltd. Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-APNIC ARIN Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 6389 3331 3735 185 bellsouth.net, inc. 7029 3154 990 161 Windstream Communications Inc 18566 2085 382 180 Covad Communications 1785 1911 678 128 PaeTec Communications, Inc. 22773 1886 2931 129 Cox Communications, Inc. 20115 1659 1580 615 Charter Communications 4323 1577 1154 387 Time Warner Telecom 30036 1388 273 744 Mediacom Communications Corp 7018 1241 10316 827 AT&T WorldNet Services 7011 1204 329 698 Citizens Utilities Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-ARIN RIPE Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 8402 1654 544 16 Corbina telecom 2118 1401 97 14 EUnet/RELCOM Autonomous Syste 15557 1226 2247 55 LDCOM NETWORKS 12479 846 773 79 Uni2 Autonomous System 34984 766 205 179 BILISIM TELEKOM 6830 723 2313 447 UPC Distribution Services 20940 720 230 552 Akamai Technologies European 31148 709 37 9 FreeNet ISP 13188 668 100 9 Educational Network 58113 616 69 362 LIR DATACENTER TELECOM SRL Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-RIPE LACNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ----------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 10620 2155 368 223 TVCABLE BOGOTA 28573 2145 1248 54 NET Servicos de Comunicao S.A 8151 1580 3034 348 UniNet S.A. de C.V. 7303 1565 1034 199 Telecom Argentina Stet-France 6503 1535 451 69 AVANTEL, S.A. 6458 751 81 15 GUATEL 27947 722 74 94 Telconet S.A 3816 643 310 30 Empresa Nacional de Telecomun 11172 593 85 69 Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V 14420 581 83 100 CORPORACION NACIONAL DE TELEC Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-LACNIC AfriNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ------------------------------------------ ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 24863 879 275 36 LINKdotNET AS number 8452 812 958 13 TEDATA 36998 772 48 3 MOBITEL 6713 517 650 19 Itissalat Al-MAGHRIB 24835 269 80 8 RAYA Telecom - Egypt 3741 263 904 223 The Internet Solution 33776 207 12 12 Starcomms Nigeria Limited 12258 194 28 66 Vodacom Internet Company 15706 193 32 6 Sudatel Internet Exchange Aut 29975 191 667 21 Vodacom Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-AFRINIC Global Per AS prefix count summary ---------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 6389 3331 3735 185 bellsouth.net, inc. 7029 3154 990 161 Windstream Communications Inc 4766 2979 11429 904 Korea Telecom (KIX) 17974 2339 702 54 PT TELEKOMUNIKASI INDONESIA 10620 2155 368 223 TVCABLE BOGOTA 28573 2145 1248 54 NET Servicos de Comunicao S.A 18566 2085 382 180 Covad Communications 1785 1911 678 128 PaeTec Communications, Inc. 22773 1886 2931 129 Cox Communications, Inc. 7545 1757 301 86 TPG Internet Pty Ltd Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet Global Per AS Maximum Aggr summary ---------------------------------- ASN No of nets Net Savings Description 7029 3154 2993 Windstream Communications Inc 17974 2339 2285 PT TELEKOMUNIKASI INDONESIA 28573 2145 2091 NET Servicos de Comunicao S.A 4766 2979 2075 Korea Telecom (KIX) 10620 2155 1932 TVCABLE BOGOTA 18566 2085 1905 Covad Communications 1785 1911 1783 PaeTec Communications, Inc. 22773 1886 1757 Cox Communications, Inc. 7545 1757 1671 TPG Internet Pty Ltd 8402 1654 1638 Corbina telecom Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-CIDRnet List of Unregistered Origin ASNs (Global) ----------------------------------------- Bad AS Designation Network Transit AS Description 59505 UNALLOCATED 5.2.65.0/24 50673 Serverius AS 59505 UNALLOCATED 5.2.66.0/24 50673 Serverius AS 59414 UNALLOCATED 5.102.144.0/21 15576 Nextra backbone in D 59395 UNALLOCATED 5.133.16.0/21 12658 Dexterity Networks L 59407 UNALLOCATED 5.134.16.0/21 51167 Giga-Hosting GmbH 59521 UNALLOCATED 5.134.192.0/21 29518 Labs2 59441 UNALLOCATED 5.144.128.0/21 50810 Mobin Net Communicat 59581 UNALLOCATED 5.149.8.0/21 25577 C4L main AS 59457 UNALLOCATED 5.149.64.0/24 35567 DASTO semtel d.o.o. 59457 UNALLOCATED 5.149.64.0/19 35567 DASTO semtel d.o.o. Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-badAS Advertised Unallocated Addresses -------------------------------- Network Origin AS Description 5.249.176.0/20 58056 IKT, d.o.o. 5.249.192.0/19 42277 RIPE Network Coordination Cen 5.254.128.0/24 42708 RIPE Network Coordination Cen 14.192.0.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.4.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.8.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.12.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.16.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.20.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg 14.192.24.0/22 45464 Room 201, TGU Bldg Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-add-IANA Number of prefixes announced per prefix length (Global) ------------------------------------------------------- /1:0 /2:0 /3:0 /4:0 /5:0 /6:0 /7:0 /8:18 /9:14 /10:29 /11:84 /12:237 /13:476 /14:843 /15:1543 /16:12393 /17:6441 /18:10838 /19:21093 /20:30253 /21:32163 /22:42398 /23:39918 /24:223596 /25:1402 /26:1664 /27:924 /28:175 /29:62 /30:18 /31:0 /32:24 Advertised prefixes smaller than registry allocations ----------------------------------------------------- ASN No of nets Total ann. Description 7029 2641 3154 Windstream Communications Inc 18566 2035 2085 Covad Communications 6389 1851 3331 bellsouth.net, inc. 8402 1377 1654 Corbina telecom 30036 1323 1388 Mediacom Communications Corp 22773 1227 1886 Cox Communications, Inc. 15557 1170 1226 LDCOM NETWORKS 11492 1161 1198 Cable One 6503 1053 1535 AVANTEL, S.A. 1785 1013 1911 PaeTec Communications, Inc. Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-sXXas-nos Number of /24s announced per /8 block (Global) ---------------------------------------------- 1:604 2:600 3:1 4:13 5:485 6:3 8:457 12:2000 13:1 14:664 15:11 16:3 17:6 20:27 23:206 24:1789 27:1358 31:1022 32:56 33:2 34:2 36:7 37:737 38:829 39:2 40:133 41:3072 42:158 44:3 46:1587 47:2 49:476 50:595 52:13 54:18 55:9 56:1 57:31 58:986 59:531 60:241 61:1292 62:950 63:1995 64:4266 65:2240 66:4500 67:2040 68:1170 69:3202 70:987 71:509 72:1871 74:2599 75:483 76:313 77:949 78:960 79:488 80:1264 81:957 82:628 83:532 84:615 85:1159 86:810 87:923 88:363 89:1805 90:302 91:5206 92:579 93:1546 94:1604 95:1167 96:416 97:319 98:994 99:39 100:23 101:261 103:1533 105:512 106:118 107:198 108:455 109:1935 110:797 111:964 112:450 113:704 114:657 115:813 116:891 117:729 118:935 119:1266 120:309 121:688 122:1645 123:1161 124:1345 125:1284 128:549 129:184 130:282 131:633 132:301 133:22 134:250 135:61 136:217 137:239 138:340 139:171 140:500 141:282 142:487 143:370 144:497 145:80 146:515 147:257 148:757 149:324 150:157 151:170 152:450 153:183 154:20 155:419 156:222 157:381 158:186 159:647 160:343 161:414 162:359 163:190 164:693 165:420 166:530 167:550 168:964 169:125 170:908 171:150 172:7 173:1688 174:612 175:440 176:799 177:1166 178:1645 180:1361 181:136 182:1052 183:295 184:605 186:2242 187:1248 188:1501 189:1578 190:6026 192:6030 193:5725 194:4554 195:3455 196:1200 197:220 198:3784 199:4996 200:5967 201:1957 202:8714 203:8726 204:4431 205:2548 206:2780 207:2874 208:4069 209:3656 210:2837 211:1533 212:2034 213:1814 214:883 215:87 216:5135 217:1550 218:569 219:315 220:1242 221:536 222:334 223:385 End of report

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RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock
by Eugen Leitl 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/europe-officially-run… Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock by Iljitsch van Beijnum - Sep 14, 2012 3:20 pm UTC Earlier today, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) announced it is down to its last "/8" worth of IPv4 addresses. This means that it is no longer possible to obtain new IPv4 addresses in Europe, the former USSR, or the Middle East, with one small exception: every network operator that is a "RIPE member" or "local Internet registry" (LIR) can obtain one final block of 1024 IPv4 addresses. To fulfill these requests, the RIPE NCC is keeping that last /8, which contains 16.8 million addresses, in reserve. RIPE NCC None of this comes as a surprise given that the global pool of free IPv4 addresses was emptied in February 2011. APNIC, which distributes IP addresses in the Asia-Pacific region, ran out of IPv4 addresses in May 2011; it has been working under the "final /8" regime ever since. The remaining three Regional Internet Registries are AfriNIC (Africa), LACNIC (Latin America and the Caribbean), and ARIN (North America), which all have enough IPv4 addresses to last at least two more years. Since the depletion of IPv4 address space in the APNIC region, little information has surfaced about how network operators in the region have managed the situation. However, the lack of IPv4 addresses only impacts organizations and consumers who need additional addresses, or who need addresses for the first time. Existing IPv4 users remain unaffected, and so the immediate impact is limited. Also, large network operators get large address blocks from the RIRs and they typically have a pool of unused addresses of their own, so few will be experiencing immediate problems. However, every year for the past five years, some 200 million new IPv4 addresses have been put into use. Without a steady supply of fresh addresses, many Internet-related activities are going to become problematic in the years to come. Fortunately, 20 years ago the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) foresaw that the 3.7 billion addresses afforded by the 32-bit IPv4 address space would become a problem, and started working on a replacement: IPv6. But the IPv4 depletion didn't happen as fast as the IETF originally predicted, and IPv6 adoption has languished. But recently, IPv6 adoption got a big push in the form of World IPv6 Launch. Eventually, IPv6 will replace IPv4, but the transition won't be pretty. Reader comments 19 Iljitsch van Beijnum / Iljitsch is a contributing writer at Ars Technica, where he contributes articles about network protocols as well as Apple topics. He is currently finishing his Ph.D work at the telematics department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain. @iljitsch

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