BellSouth prefix deaggregation (was: as6198 aggregation event)

Mon Oct 13 11:15:38 UTC 2003

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:18:59AM -0400, Terry Baranski wrote:
> More on this -
> 
> Two of BellSouth's AS's (6197 & 6198) have combined to inject around
> 1,000 deaggregated prefixes into the global routing tables over the last
> few weeks (in addition to their usual load of ~600+ for a total of
> ~1,600).   

Kudos to BellSouth for taking first steps to clean this up 
overnight -- about 1100 of the prefixes left the table between 
about 01:45 and 03:45 GMT.  Very nice deflation. 

Next topic: multiple origin ASNs .. 

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