On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
They will be multiply connected to major providers, but most use some sort of ip director, and all their machines sit on the same /24.
about a year ago, i suggested arin allocate these folk /24s from swamp space with very strong qualifications.
I agree. Determining who these handful of people are should be reasonably easy, they tend to be large sites already dedicated to providing such services though. A clear example of someone in the future would be a streaming audio/video site with the latest and greatest technology. I was curious, so took a quick look at the cnn.com bgp announcement (/24), if you look at this, and think for a second, if they (AS5662) were connected to MCI/CW rather than Sprint, they would be unreachable with this announcement, other than the fact that ANS would be announcing the aggregate, and following that path, rather than having the actual as-path be traversed. - jared route-views.oregon-ix.net>sh ip b 207.25.71.0 255.255.255.0 longer-prefixes BGP table version is 111835909, local router ID is 198.32.162.100 Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path * 207.25.71.0 206.157.77.11 0 0 1673 1333 5662 i * 204.42.253.253 0 267 1225 701 5662 5662 i * 204.212.44.129 1 0 234 1225 701 5662 5662 i * 202.232.1.8 0 2497 701 5662 5662 i * 129.250.0.1 0 0 2914 1 5662 5662 i * 192.121.154.25 0 1755 1800 1239 5662 5662 i * 144.228.240.93 59 0 1239 5662 5662 i * 193.0.0.56 0 3333 286 1 5662 5662 i * 158.43.206.96 0 1849 702 701 5662 5662 i * 194.68.130.254 0 5459 5413 1 5662 5662 i * 134.55.24.6 0 293 1 5662 5662 i * 12.127.0.249 0 7018 5662 5662 i * 134.24.127.3 0 1740 7018 5662 5662 i *> 4.0.0.2 640 0 1 5662 5662 i * 204.70.4.89 0 3561 1 5662 5662 i * 129.250.0.3 0 0 2914 1673 1333 5662 i -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/