/24s run amuck again

Sun Jun 10 09:07:29 UTC 2001

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > Basically, after having sent out dozens of emails over the past 6 months I
> > have come to the conclusion that there are a few out there that will fix
> > things when presented with the problem.  But the vast majority either don't
> > have a clue, don't want to have a clue or couldn't give a damn that the
> > routing tables are increasing in size.
> 
> Behaviour modification can probably be achieved through negative
> publicity. Just need a couple of newswires to pick up a story like
> "tier1 laziness causes routing table bloat", and name the top 10 worst
> offenders.

Actually the "tier 1"'s aren't responsible for most of it, but they allow
it from their customers. The ones responsible are the tier 2's, the DSL
providers, and those just large enough to make an impact on the internet
but just small and stupid enough to not make it a good one.

It would be nice if some of the tier 1's could put some pressure on their
customers. Does anyone actually want to get off their butts and do this?

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