On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Erik Muller wrote:

OK, that explains it - thanks for confirming that. The way it was presented initially had the ring of "these guys and/or their customers are originating N number of prefixes", so I wanted to make sure nothing bad was happening ;)

Appologies to the slighted networks if anyone thought thats what the 2nd view of my first post was... This view may be slightly better for such purposes, the last and next to last unique AS in the path... Remember transit-view milage may vary. Loading routing table... Done. ASN: 701 routes: 1906 UUNet ASN: 1221 routes: 1775 Telstra ASN: 1 routes: 606 BBN Planet ASN: 2711 routes: 603 Rock Hill Telephone Company ASN: 7018 routes: 599 AT&T ASN: 7046 routes: 587 UUNet ASN: 1785 routes: 546 Applied Theory ASN: 705 routes: 537 UUNet ASN: 174 routes: 508 PSINet ASN: 8013 routes: 494 PSINet Canada ASN: 2551 routes: 463 ICG NetAhead ASN: 1239 routes: 453 Sprint ASN: 3561 routes: 365 Cable and Wireless ASN: 4293 routes: 355 Cable and Wireless ASN: 2548 routes: 346 Digex ASN: 2764 routes: 337 connect.com.au ASN: 3602 routes: 313 Sprint Canada ASN: 703 routes: 299 UUNet (Asia) ASN: 209 routes: 292 Qwest ASN: 2914 routes: 291 Verio ASN: 3301 routes: 271 Telia ASN: 577 routes: 268 Bell Canada ASN: 3908 routes: 261 Supernet, Inc. ASN: 271 routes: 261 University of British Columbia ASN: 724 routes: 258 DLA Systems Automation Center ASN: 4755 routes: 246 Videsh Sanchar Nigam ASN: 8151 routes: 246 UniNet S.A. de C.V. ASN: 816 routes: 237 UUNet Canada ASN: 4151 routes: 236 US Department of Agriculture ASN: 1257 routes: 225 Swipnet ASN: 2939 routes: 211 Department of Information Resources Management ASN: 6429 routes: 204 RdC Internet ASN: 7545 routes: 196 TPG Internet ASN: 7657 routes: 194 The Internet Group ASN: 11371 routes: 187 Rhythms NetConnections ASN: 3549 routes: 183 Global Crossings ASN: 2493 routes: 182 fONOROLA -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)