Cogent service

Mon Sep 23 21:48:05 UTC 2002

This was a totally bogus reason from the very beginning. Given that real
backbones carry no prefixes longer than 24 bits the "long" lookup in

Last numbers I saw put 701 at over 100k prefixes in the /25-/32 range.
The more correct statement is backbones carry no external prefixes
longer then /24. The point is there can be a HUGE number of internal
prefixes that can make a difference. I will admit 701 route bloat, is
not a typical example.