Re: [NANOG] /24's run amuck?

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 20:42 06/02/01 +0100, Pim van Riezen wrote:

Anyone have better contact inside Telstra?  I sent the following about a 
week ago with no response yet:

> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:30:10 +0200
> To: as1221@telstra.net, David.Woodgate@telstra.net, paull@telstra.net, 
> gih@telstra.net
> From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
> Subject: Telstra and global routing table bloat
>
> AS1221 has been known for some time now to be sending out too many 
> prefixes not based on CIDR boundries, thereby increasing the global router 
> table size:
>
> ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description
> AS1221 1652    1215    437     26.5%   TELSTRA-AS
>
> I hope Telstra can take the time to add the appropriate BGP filters so 
> that the we all do not suffer from global router table bloat.
>
> Thanks,
> Hank
Thanks,
Hank


> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > BTW who is AS 1221? That block is listed as allocated by ARIN, but ARIN
> > has nothing in the whois for them.
>
> [whois.radb.net]
> aut-num:       AS1221
> as-name:       TELSTRA-AS
> descr:         TELSTRA-AS
> admin-c:       GIH105
> tech-c:        DW187
> notify:        as1221@telstra.net
> mnt-by:        MAINT-AS1221
> changed:       David.Woodgate@telstra.net 19990506
> source:        RADB
>
> aut-num:       AS1221
> as-name:       ASN-TELSTRA
> descr:         Telstra Pty Ltd
>                Locked Bag No. 5744
>                GPO, Canberra, ACT, 2601
> admin-c:       GH105-AP
> tech-c:        DW187-AP
> remarks:       AS assigned by the former InterNIC
> remarks:       Object automatically converted from the APNIC(RIPE181) registry
>
> Seems some special odd transfer between ARIN and APNIC.
>
> HTH. HAND.
> Pi