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Re: The SWAMP

  • From: Bradley Dunn
  • Date: Mon Sep 09 01:05:22 1996 
> If there has to be a separate route for each one anyway, why not just 
> blow 253*10 addresses and announce a /24 for each root name server, even 
> if only one IP out of each /24 is used?
> 
> Less CPU to blow holes in filters that normally deny > /24.
> 
> Avi

How far does this get extended, then? What if, to encourage aggregation,
/24s start to be filtered? Do you then blow a /23? A /22? I guess the real
question is how do you balance between two scarce resources, router CPU and
IPv4 address space.

-BD
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