hole punching reality check

Thu Oct 17 02:40:56 UTC 1996

>I would expect the world to see the following announcements.
>
>A - I announcing a shorter prefix, A
>B - P announcing a more specific for the /24 allocated to C
>
>Is this not what we all expect?

Sounds like the right thing to me.

>Why I ask is we have provider P telling I that they should stop announcing A
>and instead announce a bunch of prefixes around the /24.

They're nuts.

Eric

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