advertisements of 14/8 and 223/8

Thu Apr 15 20:26:59 UTC 2010

Hello,

Tomoya Yoshida wrote:

> I started to advertise for test two /8s and in addition to
> collecting of unwanted traffic I checked the status of
> route-views of these two /8s including two experimental
> prefixes in 27/8 which is allocated to APNIC on Jan 2010
> and old 115/8 space.
> 
> http://www.nttv6.jp/~yoshida/bogon_rviews_20100415_yoshida.pdf
> 
> For 27/8, It seemse that some ISP still dosen't update
> their filter or dosen't advertise to route-views by some reasons.
> Now I'm using 27/8 space and I found that there is no reachability
> about 10% ASes, at least 2,000 ASes as our test, It can't be
> said the good situation at all. I will continue to test this month
> and would like to share about the result somewhere.
> 
> Also the interesting result is that there is differences between
> 14/8 and 223/8 on route-views result. Do you have any idea?

I have heard from some carriers that they only accept selected /8s, but not from
all IP ranges. Perhaps the test announcements should be 4x /10 for example
instead of a single /8. Then the announcements should reach more ASes.

Regards,

Chris