On 10/05/98, Aleksi Suhonen <ams@sci.fi> wrote:
But, and this is a considerable but, not all of the eight thousand ASes that are missing from the CIDR report are unused. There are a lot of ASes out there that are in use, but don't show up on a global routing table. Most of these are regional backbone or exchange ASes that don't themselves terminate any routes. They are only visible to networks that are connected to them.
...assuming, of course, that nobody transits those ASes to the rest of the Internet.
And then there's the RBL AS, 7777.
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