Re: IAB and "private" numbering

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> > i rant, yet again.  
> >
> >     what is this "the" public routing table?  where does one
> >     get it?  in my 25 years of networking I have NEVER seen it.
>
> Have you seen the moon? Touched it? I still can't be convinced that
> pluto exists, I haven't seen it, but it appears to be there ;)

        seen them both.

> >     i am convinced that it is a fictional as the "public" Internet.
> >     or the "DFZ" ... they do not exist, except in the fevered 
> >     imaginations of marketing droids... and the virus is more virulent
> >     than the H5N1 strain.  Note that it affects normally sane engineers
> >     who KNOW better.
>
> Well I apparently have a lot of nasty viruses floating around in my body
> at http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/ I used "DFP" with which I mean:
>
> "Default Free Prefix, a prefix routed without having any smaller
> prefixes covering it. Removing such a prefix will make the
> prefix unreachable."
>
> DFZ would be the group of all DFP's.

        routed where?  your router?  my router?   until/unless
        you can look at EVERY router and see this mythical DFP
        in ALL of them, then i remain convinced you are deluded.


>  Jeroen

--bill