The number of the AS
J.D. Falk
jdfalk at cp.net
Tue Oct 6 06:09:54 UTC 1998
On 10/05/98, Aleksi Suhonen <ams at sci.fi> wrote:
> But, and this is a considerable but, not all of the eight
> thousand ASes that are missing from the CIDR report are
> unused. There are a lot of ASes out there that are in use,
> but don't show up on a global routing table. Most of these
> are regional backbone or exchange ASes that don't themselves
> terminate any routes. They are only visible to networks
> that are connected to them.
...assuming, of course, that nobody transits those ASes to
the rest of the Internet.
> And then there's the RBL AS, 7777.
Not to be confused with the AS that shall forever live in
infamy, 7007. Anybody still filtering that one?
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