Re: The number of the AS

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cp net>]

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.

        Not to be confused with the AS that shall forever live in
        infamy, 7007.  Anybody still filtering that one?

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