Don't forget my favorite target for 'aggregation agression', dear ol' UUNet, just for grins I polled one of my border routers, 1784 prefixes being heard with an AS path of ^701$, of which 271 are /24's, not to mention the rest of their unaggregated announcements. This apparentl lack of concern for how they affect the rest of the internet with their lasse fair attitude when it comes to making their customers announce properly to them (and thus to us) is simply amazing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kai Schlichting" <kai@pac-rim.net> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report
At Friday 03:00 PM 9/22/00, Tony Bates wrote:
Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history.
Is this just me, or has noone commented on this in a while? Somehow we are seeing an exponential growth in the number of prefixes in the last 12 months, while it was linear for the 5 years before that ( http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.hist.plot.html )
What 'threshold' has triggered this sudden event, with routes going from 60,000 to 90,000 in just 12 months? Multihoming becoming fashionable? Dinky-rink providers getting multihomed, and for lack of engineering experience announcing 32 /24's out of their scattered POPs in addition to their /19 aggregate because they can't get their load balancing right without it or have never heard of the 'NO_EXPORT' attribute (I could point fingers now)?