RE: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

What I was describing is filtering the announcements of /24s that are
part of larger allocations. Not filtering the announcements of "The
Swamp".


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skywing [mailto:Skywing () valhallalegends com]
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 7:08 PM
> To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu; Nathan Ward
> Cc: nanog list
> Subject: RE: What is the most standard subnet length on internet
>
> Snarky replies aside, it might be interesting to hear if there are any
> real examples of this being done intentionally and not out of not
> knowing better or otherwise configuration error.  For example, Tomas
> Byrnes's suggestion re: hijacking; although, I suspect that in that
> case, he's speaking of someone doing this filtering on a one-off basis
> and not on all /24's in the DFZ.
>
> - S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:05 PM
> To: Nathan Ward
> Cc: nanog list
> Subject: Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:44:46 +1300, Nathan Ward said:
>
> > Why are people doing this? Are they lacking clue, or, is there some
> > reasonable purpose?
>
> The total number of routing cluons is apparently a fixed quantity.  The
> number of AS's is known to be increasing. Do the math.