[WARNNIG: My spelling thingo is busted, expect horrendous grammer and spelting errors!] On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:00:10PM +1200, Mark Seward wrote: 203.79.64 has been part of our list for a very long time, however last week it got shorter (/19 -> /18) as the result of a new allocation. Cool, very cool (why? see below). Our peers were notified of this change on Friday morning last week (AS4768 included). I only see a request for 203.79.96.0/20 --- not the entire supernet. There is no guarantee people will automagically see aggregatable chunks and do the aggregation themselves. > I also note we receive this from 4763 (makes sense) but it's > not in their filter list either... I'll get that checked, thanks for pointing it out. Oh, I wouldn't look too hard, it's already sorted in the 4768 filters. Something I'd like to point out here, what Paradise is doing is a _really_ good thing. Speaking from experience with 4768 we have tried really hard to only advertise the supernets with as little fragmentation as possible --- Paradise clearly are also putting in some effort here as have 4763. However, if you look at much of the NZ address space, its apparent most people either have no idea what they are doing or choose to be lazy (probably a bit of both) --- there are pleny of supernets which are advertised only as itsy bitsy little chunks, despite pleas that people address this situation (as either general messages such as this one or directed private requests). There are even those who choose to use the same ASN for completely different, but connected, autonomous systems (whether this is a good thing or not I'll leave for another thread) which makes trouble shooting extremely difficult (i.e. why does one AS<blah> router do X when another does Y sort of thing?). Anyhow, if this air of what could be construed as negativity, I would like to thank Mark and those others involved for putting the effort into doing this the 'right way' --- all these small efforts add up an make things much easier long term. --cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog