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Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements


From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () interall co il>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:40:35 +0300

On 12/08/2021 17:59, William Herrin wrote:

If you prune the routes from the Routing Information Base instead, for
any widely accepted size (i.e. /24 or shorter netmask) you break the
Internet.

How does this break the Internet? I would think it would just result in sub-optimal routing (provided there is a covering larger prefix) but everything should continue to work. Clue me in, please.

-Hank


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