/24s run amuck

Wed Jan 14 20:22:34 UTC 2004

This was always a bad practice.

One of the major networks to do this is Gone. Another had rewritten their
policy to say something along the lines of "should advertise X amount of
address space in aggregate or the equivalent". I don't think anyone still
measures by prefixes alone. It was always the sign of cluelessness amongst
those setting peering requirements.

- Daniel Golding 

On 1/13/04 6:52 AM, "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 13, 2004, at 6:33 AM, Michael Hallgren wrote:
> 
>>> and that a large driver is to
>>> make your network look larger than it is...
>>> 
>> 
>> What audience??
> 
> Unfortunately, I've seen Peering Policies which require things like
> "Must announce a minimum of 5,000 prefixes". :(