Hmm...seems I better comment seeing as you are all believing the report as gospel. "Mark S. Fedor" <fedor@msf.psi.net> writes: * Before anyone freaks out, I'd like to make sure the numbers * are correct here. I really don't think we added 625 network * routes last week. I don't have the exact number, but I can find * out. * No I can see you didn't (as should be clear to most as well). It is clear though that you split ASes, hence the massive delta. Currently I see 679 classfull routes in AS2149 and 760 in AS174. * Last weeks report said we withdrew 500 or so routes. This was indeed * wrong. * Well as far as it shows 500+ routes went from AS174. As I look at the daily deltas I see there is in fact a flip every now and then between the two ASes. [mature-tony-60] grep AS174 Del* Delta.16Sep94: 14 AS174 NYSERNET-AS Delta.17Sep94: -671 AS174 NYSERNET-AS Delta.18Sep94: -628 AS174 NYSERNET-AS Delta.19Sep94: 649 AS174 NYSERNET-AS Delta.20Sep94: 680 AS174 NYSERNET-AS Delta.21Sep94: -352 AS174 NYSERNET-AS [mature-tony-61] grep AS2149 !$ grep AS2149 Del* Delta.16Sep94: -2 AS2149 PSINET-2 Delta.17Sep94: 670 AS2149 PSINET-2 Delta.18Sep94: 660 AS2149 PSINET-2 Delta.19Sep94: -605 AS2149 PSINET-2 Delta.20Sep94: -656 AS2149 PSINET-2 Delta.21Sep94: 625 AS2149 PSINET-2 * We do aggregate. We have a block which we assign to our customers. * Most of them choose a CIDR network. We have incentives for them * to do it. We do get the occasional customer who wants to route their * network. However, I doubt it is 625. I will check. * I see this as well. These are the current cidr routes I see for the two ASes. All bar one of the cidr blacks have more specifics announced. [mature-tony-57] grep "AS174 " !$ grep "AS174 " Specific.21Sep94 Y 192.127.0.0/16 AS174 192.127.0.0 192.127.255.0 256 69 Y 199.98.0.0/16 AS174 199.98.0.0 199.98.255.0 256 89 Y 199.99.0.0/16 AS174 199.99.0.0 199.99.255.0 256 96 N 199.100.0.0/16 AS174 199.100.0.0 199.100.255.0 256 0 Y 202.64.0.0/16 AS174 202.64.0.0 202.64.255.0 256 13 [mature-tony-58] grep "AS2149 " !$ grep "AS2149 " Specific.21Sep94 N 198.242.64.0/20 AS2149 198.242.64.0 198.242.79.0 16 0 * Our CIDR policy is public and I have discussed it with many people in bgpd. * * If the reports are based on a routing table dump at a given location * on the Internet every week and compared to last weeks dump of routes, * then a nicely timed event could skew the stats. * Definately, as is stated very clearly in report - it is a snapshot. Please all read the report and understand it for what it is....an indicator. If you see interesting information check the individual stats files. If this is causing people problems I can withdraw the reports. * mf --Tony.