The SWAMP

Mon Sep 9 05:13:00 UTC 1996

>> We have considered assigning a /32 to each root name server and asking
>> everybody in the universe to carry these 10 or so routes in the interest
>> of complete and permanent provider independence.  So rather than worry
>> about the /24's ... :-)
> 
> If there has to be a separate route for each one anyway, why not just 
> blow 253*10 addresses and announce a /24 for each root name server, even 
> if only one IP out of each /24 is used?
> 
> Less CPU to blow holes in filters that normally deny> /24.

I agree with your ammendment to the proposal.  It makes it somewhat more
sensible.

But I gotta ask why we have to pollute the world with a few more /24s.
Everybody who has introduced /24s probably thinks that their reason is
justified.  Commons, meet sheep.

randy