The Cidr Report

Fri Feb 11 14:02:05 UTC 2005

> any thoughts on how to fix it? my peers keep sending these to 
> me and i'll even admit my customers do too. telling people 
> its bad doesnt appear to have an effect, at the small end 
> networks seem to collect /24s and announce them freely, at 
> the large end i'm still without an explanation as to why 
> large networks require so many prefixes - none of them seem 
> to comment?
> 
> if people arent self policing it seems the only other way is 
> for the larger transit providers to stop accepting prefixes 
> and telling their customers to fix their s**t. and i dont see 
> them doing this.

proxy aggregation if they don't fix it.

Neil.