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Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time
From: Martin List-Petersen <martin () airwire ie>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 03:52:42 +0000
On 03/01/18 03:40, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:46 PM, James Breeden <James () arenalgroup co> wrote:I'm amazed at the number of AS numbers that are assigned, but not actively being used.'not actuvely being used' ... how would you (or anyone) know? what if they were used only on some internal part of a large public network which never leaked beyond their borders/uses? What if the ASN is used on a large private network? (for instance.. where I know of several such things).
I'd second those views. Just take IXPs as an example. Their AS does not necessarily get redistributed past the ISPs peering on these.
Not only that, but smaller ones often have non-routable IPv4 allocations, like a /26.
So saying, that an ASN is unused is never very accurate, when you don't have the full picture. And the global routing table certainly isn't the full picture.
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- RE: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time, (continued)
- RE: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Naslund, Steve (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Mike Hammett (Jan 03)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Owen DeLong (Jan 03)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Mark Andrews (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Job Snijders (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time William Herrin (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Seth Mattinen (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Randy Bush (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Owen DeLong (Jan 03)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Christopher Morrow (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Martin List-Petersen (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Julien Goodwin (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time Jimmy Hess (Jan 02)
- Re: AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time William Herrin (Jan 03)