InterNIC - We put the "I" in incompetent.

Sun Mar 14 20:15:43 UTC 1999

Michael Dillon <michael at memra.com> writes:

> > Michael, you should know better than that.  I do not see a subnet mask on
> > these IP addresses.  There is nothing stopping a Network Operator from
> > making these /32s and putting them on different networks.
> 
> Nothing except community consensus that it is a *BAD* thing to pollute the
> global routing table with lots of long prefixes.

Um, the point is that they're advertised *internally* as /32, and
*externally* as part of their larger aggregate. There's no need to
announce the addresses as /32s externally to have this scheme work.
We're using this at my place of employ already, and it works quite nicely.