[NANOG] /24's run amuck?

Wed Feb 7 05:38:32 UTC 2001

At 20:42 06/02/01 +0100, Pim van Riezen wrote:

Anyone have better contact inside Telstra?  I sent the following about a 
week ago with no response yet:

>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:30:10 +0200
>To: as1221 at telstra.net, David.Woodgate at telstra.net, paull at telstra.net, 
>gih at telstra.net
>From: Hank Nussbacher <hank at att.net.il>
>Subject: Telstra and global routing table bloat
>
>AS1221 has been known for some time now to be sending out too many 
>prefixes not based on CIDR boundries, thereby increasing the global router 
>table size:
>
>ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description
>AS1221 1652    1215    437     26.5%   TELSTRA-AS
>
>I hope Telstra can take the time to add the appropriate BGP filters so 
>that the we all do not suffer from global router table bloat.
>
>Thanks,
>Hank

Thanks,
Hank

>On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > BTW who is AS 1221? That block is listed as allocated by ARIN, but ARIN
> > has nothing in the whois for them.
>
>[whois.radb.net]
>aut-num:       AS1221
>as-name:       TELSTRA-AS
>descr:         TELSTRA-AS
>admin-c:       GIH105
>tech-c:        DW187
>notify:        as1221 at telstra.net
>mnt-by:        MAINT-AS1221
>changed:       David.Woodgate at telstra.net 19990506
>source:        RADB
>
>aut-num:       AS1221
>as-name:       ASN-TELSTRA
>descr:         Telstra Pty Ltd
>                Locked Bag No. 5744
>                GPO, Canberra, ACT, 2601
>admin-c:       GH105-AP
>tech-c:        DW187-AP
>remarks:       AS assigned by the former InterNIC
>remarks:       Object automatically converted from the APNIC(RIPE181) registry
>
>Seems some special odd transfer between ARIN and APNIC.
>
>HTH. HAND.
>Pi