Re: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report

["Brett L. Hawn" <brett.hawn () rcn com>]

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)?