The Cidr Report

Hank Nussbacher hank at att.net.il
Sat Jan 18 17:09:21 UTC 2003


At 11:33 AM 17-01-03 -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote:


> >
> > Previously, cidr-report at potaroo.net (cidr-report at potaroo.net) wrote:
> > > AS690        521      326      195    37.4%   MERIT-AS-27 Merit 
> Network Inc
> >.
> >
> > Come on, Susan, have your folks get with the program. :-)
> >
> > --
> > Douglas A. Dever  doug at e-xpedient.com
> > 216.373.8517 - DID
> > 216.401.5888 - Cell
>
>
>    AS690 was originally aquired by Merit for the NSFNET T3 network
>and subsequently assumed by ANS -->  AOL -->  UUNET --> WorldCom
>(I'm not entirely sure if this ordering is correct).
>I've nagged Lee Howard a couple times to get this transferred
>over.  Perhaps I need to go through a less busy person.

Well, here is an email I sent last month that didn't result in a single 
response - either human or auto-response:

>Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 14:47:06 +0200
>To: michnet.operations at merit.edu, trouble at merit.edu, srh at merit.edu
>From: Hank Nussbacher <hank at att.net.il>
>Subject: Global routing table bloat - AS690
>Cc: "Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene at cisco.com>, pfs at cisco.com
>
>AS690 has been lately seen 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
>AS690    513     319       194       37.8%   MERIT-AS-27 Merit Network Inc.
>
>See http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/ and http://bgp.potaroo.net/cidr/ 
>and http://bgp.potaroo.net/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS690&view=4637
>for further details.
>
>I hope you 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

You really ought to update your ARIN entry:

OrgName:  Merit Network Inc.
OrgID:    MICH

ASNumber: 690
ASName:   MERIT-AS-27
ASHandle: AS690
Comment:
RegDate:  1990-06-28
Updated:  2002-10-01

OrgTechHandle: MICHN-ARIN
OrgTechName:   MichNet Operations
OrgTechPhone:  +1-734-936-0822
OrgTechEmail:  michnet.operations at merit.edu

OrgAbuseHandle: NETWO26-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Network Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-734-615-1475
OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse at merit.edu

-Hank




>   -Larry Blunk
>    Merit




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