does history repeat itself?

Mon Sep 9 14:26:49 UTC 1996

>   i noticed some pretty poor aggregation in some of the most recently 
> allocated address space tonight:  (advertising as's withheld to 
> protect the innocent/guilty)
> 
> 208.201.64.0/21 
> 208.201.73.0
> 208.201.88.0/21
> 208.201.97.0
> 208.201.103.0
> 208.201.112.0/22
> 208.218.64.0/20
> 210.135.160.0/20
> 210.135.192.0/22
> 210.135.224.0/20
> 
>   this seems especially bad with all the talk of better ways to 
> allocate and advertise so that we don't waste address space.  i do 
> note that most of what i call poor aggregation appears to be due to 
> "dual homing".  are we just doomed to poor aggregation because of 
> this?
> 
>   or maybe i'm just naive in thinking the internic is really cracking 
> down on small allocations and that providers are really working hard 
> to aggregate.
> 
> -brett

Hmm.  Maybe a neutral, 3rd-party agency to get dumps of tables from
major entities and which would send e-mail with suggested aggregations
to noc at theownerofeachoffendingasn.

I will make time to start running the route aggregator at routes.netaxs.com
again; we've been fighting a random-src-address-SYN-attacker for the last
week or two.  I may have some comments on THAT for NANOG re: inter-provider
cooperation shortly.

Avi