Re: Private ASNs in the wild

[ML <ml () kenweb org>]

I had resurrected a similar thread last year: 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/123155

There are sloppy networks out there.  If it was a big enough problem all 
you'd need is a few key networks drop those prefixes and we'd have 
a...slightly less sloppy Internet?


On 12/11/2014 5:08 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> I just fat fingered a regex that was intented to show how many private ASNs we’re using on our network for various 
> things.  The results of the fat fingers showed that there are an astronomical number of private ASNs in the wild.  I 
> checked the CIDR report, and those ASNs are shown there in a specific Bogon ASN report, but I’m surprised that as far 
> as I can recall, there haven’t been any efforts made by the good netizens around these parts to bring awareness to this 
> issue.
>
> Do we feel that it’s not that big of a deal?  Have we not really been paying attention?  Some other reason this seems 
> to be a rather muted topic?