CIDR and aggregation offenders

Tue Jan 30 06:33:58 UTC 2001

Remember my idea of sending emails to the worst CIDR offenders?  Some may 
have thought it naive :-).  I sent to the #1 offender and here is what I 
got back:

>X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.00 (3)
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:44:49 -0500
>Reply-To: dholmes at appliedtheory.com
>From: "Douglas Holmes" <dholmes at appliedtheory.com>
>To: hank at att.net.il
>Cc: support at appliedtheory.com
>Subject: Ticket#38024
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by MaX.att.net.il id 
>WAA73496
>
>Mr Nussbacher,
>
>AppliedTheory has performed a maintenance over the weekend to correct 
>non-aggregated routes were being leaked to the Internet by one of our peers.
>
>As you may have noticed, this was a rather sudden jump to the top of the 
>list. It appears that some of our non-aggregated routes were being leaked 
>to the Internet by one of our peers.
>
>We take our responsibility as citizens of the Internet community seriously 
>and therefore do our best to aggregate appropriately. We are regularly 
>reviewing the way we announce routes to the Internet to ensure that we are 
>doing what serves our customers' and the Internet community's best interests.
>
>After fixing the leak through our peer, I think you will find that we will 
>fall off the list of "worst offenders" very quickly.  Thank you.
>
>Regards,
>
>Douglas Holmes
>Day Team Leader
>Customer Support Center
>
>
>
>*************************************************
> >To: radb at appliedtheory.com, vk at appliedtheory.com,
> >hostmaster at appliedtheory.com
> >From: Hank Nussbacher <hank at att.net.il>
> >Subject: Global routing table bloat
> >Hello.
> >Based on the CIDR report located at:
> >http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html
> >Applied Theory is the worst offender:
> >ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description
> >AS1785 593 370 223 37.6% AppliedTheory Communications
> >This means that the global BGP routing table is now close to 100,000
> >prefixes and your organization is listed as the worst offender for not
> >aggregating their prefixes when announcing them to the Internet.
> >I hope Applied Theory can take the time and fix up their prefix
> >announcements to the Internet so we all don't have to suffer.
> >Thanks,
> >Hank Nussbacher
> >