RE: The Cidr Report

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Frotzler, Florian wrote:

> > Recent Table History
> >         Date      Prefixes    CIDR Agg
> >         04-02-05    151613      103143
> >         05-02-05    152142      103736
> >         06-02-05    152231      103721
> >         07-02-05    152353      103830
> >         08-02-05    152514      103966
> >         09-02-05    153855      104090
> >         10-02-05    154283      104246
> >         11-02-05    154341      104240
> <...>
>
> ~ +3000 routes in one week? Anyone else frightened by this?
>
> Florian

any thoughts on how to fix it? my peers keep sending these to me and i'll even 
admit my customers do too. telling people its bad doesnt appear to have an 
effect, at the small end networks seem to collect /24s and announce them freely, 
at the large end i'm still without an explanation as to why large networks 
require so many prefixes - none of them seem to comment?

if people arent self policing it seems the only other way is for the larger 
transit providers to stop accepting prefixes and telling their customers to fix 
their s**t. and i dont see them doing this.

Steve