"Tactical" /24 announcements

Thu Aug 12 16:40:35 UTC 2021

On 12/08/2021 17:59, William Herrin wrote:

> If you prune the routes from the Routing Information Base instead, for
> any widely accepted size (i.e. /24 or shorter netmask) you break the
> Internet. 

How does this break the Internet?  I would think it would just result in 
sub-optimal routing (provided there is a covering larger prefix) but 
everything should continue to work.  Clue me in, please.

-Hank