October 1999 - routing-wg - mailman.ripe.net

Reminder: RPSL Transition
by Gerald Andrew Winters 29 Oct '99

29 Oct '99

A final reminder for users of the RADB database service: at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on November 1, 1999, the whois.radb.net and auto-dbm(a)radb.net services will default to the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) database. This means that whois queries to whois.radb.net after November 1 will return RPSL objects. RIPE-181 queries will still be possible after November 1 via whois queries to whois-ripe181.radb.net and email submissions to auto-ripe181(a)radb.net. In addition, between 11/1/99 and 1/1/00, RIPE-181 submissions will be auto-converted and folded into the RPSL database. Users need to be aware of this, as corresponding RPSL entries will be overwritten with the auto-converted RIPE-181 objects. You will need to *RECONFIGURE* your tools to explicitly query whois-ripe181.radb.net and send RIPE-181 submissions to auto-ripe181.radb.net. During the changeover, the whois.radb.net DNS entry will be changed to point to the production RPSL database. Because of DNS latency, there will be a period of time when all resolvers have not received the new DNS entry IP address. During this transition period, some users may want to manually configure the IP address used by their query tools. The IP addresses of the machines will be: whois.radb.net 198.108.0.18 (RPSL queries) whois-ripe181.radb.net 198.108.0.11 (RIPE-181 queries) For further information about the transition to RPSL, see: http://www.radb.net/announce.html Comments or questions about the transition are welcome; please send email to db-admin(a)radb.net. --Gerald Winters Merit IRRd Team

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 29 Oct '99

29 Oct '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Oct 29 12:00:00 PDT 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 29Oct99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 221099 65598 231099 65493 241099 65535 251099 65586 261099 66128 271099 65317 281099 65520 291099 65524 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- *** Bogus 100.0.0.0 from AS2561 *** Bogus 110.30.236.0/24 from AS577 *** Bogus 126.0.0.0 from AS2561 AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 5916 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 3138 (1731 cidr, 1407 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 601 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 1017 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 29Oct99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 383 144 239 62.4% BCnet Backbone AS7046 426 255 171 40.1% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS2609 128 8 120 93.8% EUnet-TN AS6944 133 18 115 86.5% RapidSite, Inc. AS1221 625 515 110 17.6% TELSTRA-AS AS9269 131 30 101 77.1% Hong Kong CTI AS7657 250 162 88 35.2% The Internet Group Limited AS174 563 476 87 15.5% Performance Systems International AS577 265 180 85 32.1% Bell Canada Backbone AS4293 227 142 85 37.4% Internal ASN for C&W AS7545 140 64 76 54.3% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS3749 140 64 76 54.3% TECNET AS7496 111 37 74 66.7% Power Up AS4200 183 110 73 39.9% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS701 1017 954 63 6.2% Alternet AS209 321 268 53 16.5% Qwest Communications AS4740 339 287 52 15.3% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS684 92 46 46 50.0% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS816 226 181 45 19.9% UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4) AS4755 109 68 41 37.6% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS2493 132 92 40 30.3% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS9304 54 15 39 72.2% Hutchcity AS6528 45 7 38 84.4% WORLD-LYNX AS549 213 175 38 17.8% ONet Backbone AS1 501 466 35 7.0% GTE Internetworking AS7568 47 13 34 72.3% C.S. Communications Co., Ltd. AS6172 143 110 33 23.1% HOME-NET-1 AS3737 99 66 33 33.3% PenTeleData Inc. (ASN-PTD) AS1785 237 205 32 13.5% NYSERNet Backbone AS9453 33 2 31 93.9% Soongsil University For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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RPSL Transition
by Gerald Andrew Winters 26 Oct '99

26 Oct '99

A reminder for users of the RADB database service: at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on November 1, 1999, the whois.radb.net and auto-dbm(a)radb.net services will default to the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) database. This means that whois queries to whois.radb.net after November 1 will return RPSL objects. RIPE-181 queries will still be possible after November 1 via whois queries to whois-ripe181.radb.net. However, you will need to *RECONFIGURE* your tools to explicitly query whois-ripe181.radb.net and send RIPE-181 submissions to auto-ripe181.radb.net. RIPE-181 submissions made between 11/1/1999 and 1/1/2000 will be visible on whois.radb.net as RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL. The objects will be converted every five minutes from the whois-ripe181.radb.net database. Availability of the database in both syntax languages will ease the transition to RPSL by allowing users to view RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL. fter January 1, 2000, RIPE-181 object submissions will no longer be accepted. Here is the full transition schedule: DATE CHANGE ---- ------ 9/1/1999 RADB begins production RPSL service and enters the final stage of RPSL transition. RPSL queries are available from whois-rpsl.radb.net and submissions may be sent to auto-rpsl(a)radb.net. RIPE-181 and RPSL databases operate in parallel. whois.radb.net and auto-dbm(a)radb.net default to RIPE-181. 11/1/1999 Default whois.radb.net and auto-dbm(a)radb.net addresses change to RPSL database. RIPE-181 queries still possible via whois-ripe181.radb.net and RIPE-181 submissions still possible via email to auto-ripe181(a)radb.net. auto-ripe181(a)radb.net submissions will be auto-converted to RPSL and mirrored to the RPSL database every 5 minutes. Therefore, auto-converted RIPE-181 submissions will be visible on whois.radb.net and corresponding RPSL entries may be overwritten. 1/1/2000 RIPE-181 queries and submissions are no longer accepted and the RADB RPSL transition is complete. RADB users can query RPSL objects by issuing the following query: whois -h whois-rpsl.radb.net Objects may be submitted by sending mail to: auto-rpsl(a)radb.net Users may also use the Web-based GUI interface at: http://www.radb.net/irrj.html RPSL RFCs and Internet-Drafts are available through: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rps-charter.html Comments or questions about the transition are welcome; please send email to db-admin(a)radb.net. --Gerald Winters Merit IRRd Team

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 22 Oct '99

22 Oct '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Oct 22 12:00:01 PDT 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 22Oct99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 151099 65450 161099 65076 171099 65195 181099 65279 191099 65291 201099 65598 211099 65550 221099 65598 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- *** Bogus 110.30.236.0/24 from AS577 AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 5854 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 3086 (1688 cidr, 1398 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 583 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 945 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 22Oct99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 383 144 239 62.4% BCnet Backbone AS719 733 567 166 22.6% LANLINK autonomous system AS7046 397 260 137 34.5% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS9269 139 15 124 89.2% Hong Kong CTI AS2609 128 8 120 93.8% EUnet-TN AS1221 623 513 110 17.7% TELSTRA-AS AS6944 124 20 104 83.9% RapidSite, Inc. AS174 573 483 90 15.7% Performance Systems International AS7657 249 161 88 35.3% The Internet Group Limited AS4293 228 142 86 37.7% Internal ASN for C&W AS577 265 180 85 32.1% Bell Canada Backbone AS7496 113 36 77 68.1% Power Up AS7545 140 64 76 54.3% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS3749 140 64 76 54.3% TECNET AS4200 184 110 74 40.2% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS4740 340 288 52 15.3% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS209 314 265 49 15.6% Qwest Communications AS684 92 46 46 50.0% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS701 945 900 45 4.8% Alternet AS816 224 181 43 19.2% UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4) AS549 221 178 43 19.5% ONet Backbone AS2493 134 93 41 30.6% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS9304 54 15 39 72.2% Hutchcity AS6528 45 7 38 84.4% WORLD-LYNX AS4755 97 63 34 35.1% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS1 497 463 34 6.8% GTE Internetworking AS6172 146 113 33 22.6% HOME-NET-1 AS3737 99 66 33 33.3% PenTeleData Inc. (ASN-PTD) AS1785 236 204 32 13.6% NYSERNet Backbone AS9453 33 2 31 93.9% Soongsil University For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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Top 100 Maintainers.
by RIPE Database Administration 21 Oct '99

21 Oct '99

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Oct 15 12:00:00 PDT 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 15Oct99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 081099 64852 091099 64704 101099 64870 111099 64886 121099 64919 131099 65250 141099 68160 151099 65450 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 5800 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 3048 (1667 cidr, 1381 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 573 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 932 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 15Oct99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 384 144 240 62.5% BCnet Backbone AS719 728 563 165 22.7% LANLINK autonomous system AS7046 403 267 136 33.7% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS2609 128 8 120 93.8% EUnet-TN AS9269 130 21 109 83.8% Hong Kong CTI AS1221 623 514 109 17.5% TELSTRA-AS AS6944 112 19 93 83.0% RapidSite, Inc. AS174 580 487 93 16.0% Performance Systems International AS7657 249 161 88 35.3% The Internet Group Limited AS4293 229 143 86 37.6% Internal ASN for C&W AS577 260 177 83 31.9% Bell Canada Backbone AS7496 111 31 80 72.1% Power Up AS7545 140 64 76 54.3% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS3749 140 64 76 54.3% TECNET AS4200 183 111 72 39.3% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS4740 341 289 52 15.2% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS209 312 262 50 16.0% Qwest Communications AS2493 136 90 46 33.8% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS684 91 48 43 47.3% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS701 932 891 41 4.4% Alternet AS816 198 159 39 19.7% UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4) AS6528 45 7 38 84.4% WORLD-LYNX AS549 204 166 38 18.6% ONet Backbone AS4755 105 67 38 36.2% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS6172 145 112 33 22.8% HOME-NET-1 AS3737 99 66 33 33.3% PenTeleData Inc. (ASN-PTD) AS1 496 463 33 6.7% GTE Internetworking AS9304 47 15 32 68.1% Hutchcity AS7568 44 12 32 72.7% C.S. Communications Co., Ltd. AS1785 236 204 32 13.6% NYSERNet Backbone For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Oct 8 12:00:00 PDT 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 08Oct99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 011099 64019 021099 64011 031099 64104 041099 64203 051099 64273 061099 64275 071099 64665 081099 64852 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 5768 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 3053 (1673 cidr, 1380 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 570 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 929 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 08Oct99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 384 144 240 62.5% BCnet Backbone AS719 731 566 165 22.6% LANLINK autonomous system AS2609 127 13 114 89.8% EUnet-TN AS9269 137 24 113 82.5% Hong Kong CTI AS1221 618 509 109 17.6% TELSTRA-AS AS174 583 490 93 16.0% Performance Systems International AS7046 341 255 86 25.2% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS4293 226 141 85 37.6% Internal ASN for C&W AS577 261 177 84 32.2% Bell Canada Backbone AS6944 97 15 82 84.5% RapidSite, Inc. AS7545 140 60 80 57.1% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS7657 243 165 78 32.1% The Internet Group Limited AS7496 108 31 77 71.3% Power Up AS3749 140 64 76 54.3% TECNET AS4200 181 109 72 39.8% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS4740 343 290 53 15.5% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS209 310 261 49 15.8% Qwest Communications AS2493 138 91 47 34.1% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS684 92 46 46 50.0% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS816 225 182 43 19.1% UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4) AS701 929 888 41 4.4% Alternet AS6528 45 7 38 84.4% WORLD-LYNX AS549 200 162 38 19.0% ONet Backbone AS4755 103 68 35 34.0% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS3737 99 66 33 33.3% PenTeleData Inc. (ASN-PTD) AS7568 45 13 32 71.1% C.S. Communications Co., Ltd. AS1785 236 204 32 13.6% NYSERNet Backbone AS1 492 460 32 6.5% GTE Internetworking AS9453 33 2 31 93.9% Soongsil University AS7745 40 9 31 77.5% BIGSKY-AS For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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Top 100 Maintainers List 19991004
by RIPE Database Administration 04 Oct '99

04 Oct '99

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Oct 1 12:00:00 PDT 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 01Oct99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 060999 63135 070999 63155 080999 62994 270999 64154 280999 63958 290999 64074 300999 64030 011099 64019 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 5723 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 2996 (1637 cidr, 1359 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 556 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 910 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 01Oct99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 383 146 237 61.9% BCnet Backbone AS2609 127 13 114 89.8% EUnet-TN AS1221 585 478 107 18.3% TELSTRA-AS AS9269 128 28 100 78.1% Hong Kong CTI AS174 589 494 95 16.1% Performance Systems International AS7046 337 250 87 25.8% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS4293 228 142 86 37.7% Internal ASN for C&W AS577 263 178 85 32.3% Bell Canada Backbone AS7545 141 61 80 56.7% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS7657 244 167 77 31.6% The Internet Group Limited AS7496 109 33 76 69.7% Power Up AS6944 92 16 76 82.6% RapidSite, Inc. AS3749 139 64 75 54.0% TECNET AS4200 181 109 72 39.8% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS719 464 408 56 12.1% LANLINK autonomous system AS4740 342 288 54 15.8% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS2493 138 91 47 34.1% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS684 92 46 46 50.0% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS209 296 250 46 15.5% Qwest Communications AS6528 45 7 38 84.4% WORLD-LYNX AS549 200 162 38 19.0% ONet Backbone AS4755 112 76 36 32.1% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS3737 99 66 33 33.3% PenTeleData Inc. (ASN-PTD) AS701 910 878 32 3.5% Alternet AS9453 33 2 31 93.9% Soongsil University AS7745 40 9 31 77.5% BIGSKY-AS AS4307 32 1 31 96.9% SVINET-1 AS1785 234 203 31 13.2% NYSERNet Backbone AS10479 40 9 31 77.5% ITESM-Rectoria Zona Norte AS1 489 458 31 6.3% GTE Internetworking For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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