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New Document available: RIPE-259
by RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service 02 Oct '02

02 Oct '02

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-259 Title: Smallest RIPE NCC Allocation / Assignment Sizes Author: Joao Luis Silva Damas, Leo Vegoda Date: 2 October 2002 Format: PS=10860 TXT=2132 Obsoletes: ripe-222, ripe-242 Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- The "Smallest RIPE NCC Allocation / Assignment Sizes" document contains the size of the minimum and default allocations made by the RIPE NCC to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) and End Users from IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR blocks allocated to the RIPE NCC by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-259 is available at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html The RIPE document store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-259.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-259.txt plain text version

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Re: Route Flap Damping: Harmful ?
by Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX/UniVie 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:09:51 -0400 >From: Zhuoqing Morley Mao <zmao(a)research.att.com> > >Could you elaborate on the phenonmeon you observed? In particular, how >were you able to determine it was caused by the BGP convergence effects? Hi Morley, we (ACOnet/AS1853) do have our primary transit through Sprint/AS1239 and a (lowerpref) backup through Geant/AS20965_3549. We are receiving a full table from both (on two different routers). The path through Sprint for most of the US Internet is shorter than through Geant. When comparing the flap statistics on the two routers many of the listed prefixes are the same with about the same "duration", but the number of flaps seen through the longer path is much bigger (factor of 2-3 !) As I wrote in a previous mail, feel free to use our looking-glass http://www.aco.net/lookingglass/lg.html [flap statistics] to see the enormous amount of flaps counted by our Geant connected router. Unfortunately our Sprint connected router is not accessible through the looking-glass. But if you like I could produce snapshots and send them to you. >We hope that someone in Europe could also help out with the experiment, >details of which are described at http://www.psg.com/~zmao I think there was the idea to eventually enable RIS boxes as BGP beacons ? We do have a RIPE RIS box in Vienna at the VIX (RRC05). >We currently have two beacons in the U.S., some topology diversity would >really help. If RIS doesn't help we are considering setting up an ACOnet beacon for you, however this might not happen before begin of October. >Thanks! You are welcome ! Kind regards CP --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- --- Christian Panigl : Vienna University Computer Center - ACOnet --- --- VUCC - ACOnet - VIX : -------------------------------------------- --- --- Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Mail: Panigl(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at (CP8-RIPE) --- --- A-1010 Vienna / Austria : Tel: +43 1 4277-14032 (Fax: -9140) --- --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---

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ANNOUNCEMENT: RIPE NCC's New Projects Proudly Presents "RIS Routing Beacons"
by Matthew Williams 30 Sep '02

30 Sep '02

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear All, RIPE NCC are pleased to announce "RIS Routing Beacons": ------------------------------------------------------ At RIPE 43, Randy Bush held an interesting talk about some unwanted effects of route flap damping, as specified in RIPE-229. Subsequently, RIPE NCC's RIS project offered to assist these studies by adding the "Routing Beacon" functionality to our Remote Route Collectors (RRC). The geographically disperse distribution of our collectors makes them ideal for this purpose. RIS Routing Beacon Address Schema: ---------------------------------- 195.80.224.0/24 RRC00 - RIPE NCC, Amsterdam, NL 195.80.225.0/24 RRC01 - LINX, London, UK 195.80.226.0/24 RRC02 - SFINX, Paris, FR 195.80.227.0/24 RRC03 - AMS-IX, Amsterdam, NL 195.80.228.0/24 RRC04 - CIXP, Geneva, CH 195.80.229.0/24 RRC05 - VIX, Vienna, AT 195.80.230.0/24 RRC06 - NSPIXP2, Otemachi, JP 195.80.231.0/24 RRC07 - Netnod-IX, Stockholm, SE 195.80.232.0/24 RRC08 - MAE-WEST, San Jose, CA, US These prefixes are advertised ("network x.x.x.x") at 00:00h, 04:00h, 08:00h, 12:00h, 16:00h and 20:00h (UTC) with the corresponding withdrawals ("no network x.x.x.x") two hours later. Please see URL: http://www.ripe.net/ris/beacon.html --------------------------------- For more information about the RIS: http://www.ripe.net/ris/ Best regards, The RIS team: James Aldridge, Daniel Karrenberg, Henk Uijterwaal, Arife Vural and Matthew Williams --- > Matthew Williams-Bywater (MW243-RIPE) > Customer Liaison Engineer > RIPE NCC (http://www.ripe.net/np/)

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The Cidr Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

This report has been generated at Sun Sep 29 06:32:47 2002 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of the Route-Views router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 22-09-02 121438 87731 23-09-02 121323 87980 24-09-02 121407 88246 25-09-02 121566 88349 26-09-02 121459 87822 27-09-02 122059 87644 28-09-02 123673 89338 29-09-02 123685 89454 Possible Bogus Routes 10.5.5.0/30 AS11537 ABILENE University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development 10.11.11.0/30 AS11537 ABILENE University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development 10.33.0.0/23 AS174 PSINET PSINet Inc. 10.33.8.0/24 AS174 PSINET PSINet Inc. 39.0.0.0/8 AS4554 EP0-BLK-ASNBLOCK-4 Exchange Point Blocks AS Summary 13991 Number of ASes in routing system 5313 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix 1940 Largest number of prefixes announced by an AS AS174 : PSINET PSINet Inc. 73212416 Largest address span announced by an AS (/32s) AS568 : SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA Aggregation Summary The algorithm used in this report proposes aggregation only when there is a precise match using the AS path, so as to preserve traffic transit policies. Aggregation is also proposed across non-advertised address space ('holes'). --- 29Sep02 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description Table 123655 89454 34201 27.7% All ASes AS209 1818 1042 776 42.7% ASN-QWEST Qwest AS3908 1124 622 502 44.7% SUPERNETASBLK SuperNet, Inc. AS701 1786 1286 500 28.0% ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS2548 1582 1119 463 29.3% ICIX-MD-AS Business Internet, Inc. AS7132 603 140 463 76.8% SBIS-AS Southwestern Bell Internet Services AS174 1940 1520 420 21.6% PSINET PSINet Inc. AS7018 1360 959 401 29.5% ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services AS1221 1306 940 366 28.0% ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd AS4323 647 305 342 52.9% TW-COMM Time Warner Communications, Inc. AS7843 712 410 302 42.4% ADELPHIA-AS Adelphia Corp. AS852 758 458 300 39.6% ASN852 Telus Advanced Communications AS6197 383 97 286 74.7% BATI-ATL BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS7046 585 312 273 46.7% UUNET-CUSTOMER UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS18566 273 4 269 98.5% COVAD Covad Communications AS4151 279 32 247 88.5% USDA-1 USDA AS4355 383 145 238 62.1% ERMS-EARTHLNK EARTHLINK, INC AS1 669 447 222 33.2% GNTY-1 Genuity AS6347 393 173 220 56.0% DIAMOND SAVVIS Communications Corporation AS4814 255 37 218 85.5% CHINANET-BEIJING-AP China Telecom (Group)Beijing Telecom CompanyBeijing China AS705 409 199 210 51.3% ASN-ALTERNET UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS1239 849 652 197 23.2% SprintLink Sprint AS22927 215 20 195 90.7% AR-TEAR2-LACNIC TELEFONICA DE ARGENTINA AS690 518 325 193 37.3% NSFNET-T3-RT-AS Merit Network Inc. AS6595 250 68 182 72.8% DODDSEUR DoD Education Activity Network Assistance Center AS4134 302 122 180 59.6% ERX-CHINALINK Data Communications Bureau AS2386 421 243 178 42.3% INS-AS AT&T Data Communications Services AS3356 389 212 177 45.5% LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC AS1791 184 21 163 88.6% SPRINTLINK3 Sprint Government Systems Division AS6327 180 20 160 88.9% SHAWFIBER Shaw Fiberlink Limited AS376 337 184 153 45.4% RISQ-AS Reseau Interordinateurs Scientique Quebecois (RISQ) Total 20910 12114 8796 42.1% Top 30 total Please see http://www.cidr-report.org for the full report ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)merit.edu eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)lists.apnic.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org

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The Cidr Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

This report has been generated at Fri Sep 27 20:32:43 2002 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of the Route-Views router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 20-09-02 121329 87082 21-09-02 121481 87337 22-09-02 121438 87731 23-09-02 121323 87980 24-09-02 121407 88246 25-09-02 121566 88349 26-09-02 121459 87822 27-09-02 122059 87558 Possible Bogus Routes 7.1.1.0/30 AS12357 COMUNITEL Comunitel Global Autonomous System 10.5.5.0/30 AS11537 ABILENE University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development 10.11.11.0/30 AS11537 ABILENE University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development 10.33.0.0/23 AS174 PSINET PSINet Inc. 10.33.8.0/24 AS174 PSINET PSINet Inc. 39.0.0.0/8 AS4554 EP0-BLK-ASNBLOCK-4 Exchange Point Blocks AS Summary 13979 Number of ASes in routing system 5289 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix 1816 Largest number of prefixes announced by an AS AS209 : ASN-QWEST Qwest 73220608 Largest address span announced by an AS (/32s) AS568 : SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA Aggregation Summary The algorithm used in this report proposes aggregation only when there is a precise match using the AS path, so as to preserve traffic transit policies. Aggregation is also proposed across non-advertised address space ('holes'). --- 27Sep02 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description Table 121705 87359 34346 28.2% All ASes AS209 1816 1038 778 42.8% ASN-QWEST Qwest AS3908 1124 621 503 44.8% SUPERNETASBLK SuperNet, Inc. AS701 1786 1286 500 28.0% ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS2548 1586 1123 463 29.2% ICIX-MD-AS Business Internet, Inc. AS7132 602 140 462 76.7% SBIS-AS Southwestern Bell Internet Services AS7018 1359 959 400 29.4% ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services AS7843 711 341 370 52.0% ADELPHIA-AS Adelphia Corp. AS1221 1304 938 366 28.1% ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd AS4323 645 295 350 54.3% TW-COMM Time Warner Communications, Inc. AS852 756 458 298 39.4% ASN852 Telus Advanced Communications AS6197 382 97 285 74.6% BATI-ATL BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS7046 590 316 274 46.4% UUNET-CUSTOMER UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS18566 272 4 268 98.5% COVAD Covad Communications AS174 593 330 263 44.4% PSINET PSINet Inc. AS4151 279 32 247 88.5% USDA-1 USDA AS4355 382 144 238 62.3% ERMS-EARTHLNK EARTHLINK, INC AS1 672 442 230 34.2% GNTY-1 Genuity AS6347 397 170 227 57.2% DIAMOND SAVVIS Communications Corporation AS4814 255 36 219 85.9% CHINANET-BEIJING-AP China Telecom (Group)Beijing Telecom CompanyBeijing China AS705 408 198 210 51.5% ASN-ALTERNET UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS1580 210 11 199 94.8% HQ, 5th Signal Command AS22927 215 20 195 90.7% AR-TEAR2-LACNIC TELEFONICA DE ARGENTINA AS690 517 324 193 37.3% NSFNET-T3-RT-AS Merit Network Inc. AS1239 1110 930 180 16.2% SprintLink Sprint AS2386 421 243 178 42.3% INS-AS AT&T Data Communications Services AS3356 389 214 175 45.0% LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC AS6595 232 60 172 74.1% DODDSEUR DoD Education Activity Network Assistance Center AS1791 184 21 163 88.6% SPRINTLINK3 Sprint Government Systems Division AS4134 302 139 163 54.0% ERX-CHINALINK Data Communications Bureau AS6327 180 20 160 88.9% SHAWFIBER Shaw Fiberlink Limited Total 19679 10950 8729 44.4% Top 30 total Please see http://www.cidr-report.org for the full report ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)merit.edu eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)lists.apnic.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org

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Weekly Routing Table Report
by Routing Table Analysis 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to bgp-stats(a)lists.apnic.net For a graphical representation, please see http://www.apnic.net/stats/bgp. If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <pfs(a)cisco.com>. Routing Table Report 20:00 +10GMT Fri 27 Sep, 2002 Analysis Summary ---------------- BGP routing table entries examined: 115493 Prefixes after maximum aggregation: 74306 Unique aggregates announced to Internet: 54740 Total ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 13819 Origin-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 11950 Origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 5354 Transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1869 Transit-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 61 Average AS path length visible in the Internet Routing Table: 5.3 Max AS path length visible: 18 Illegal AS announcements present in the Routing Table: 7 Non-routable prefixes present in the Routing Table: 0 Prefixes being announced from the IANA Reserved Address blocks: 35 Number of addresses announced to Internet: 1193952488 Equivalent to 71 /8s, 42 /16s and 68 /24s Percentage of available address space announced: 32.2 Percentage of allocated address space announced: 59.0 Percentage of available address space allocated: 54.6 Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 47686 APNIC Region Analysis Summary ----------------------------- Prefixes being announced by APNIC Region ASes: 18725 Total APNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 11349 Prefixes being announced from the APNIC address blocks: 17243 Unique aggregates announced from the APNIC address blocks: 10956 APNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1620 APNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 529 APNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 280 Average APNIC Region AS path length visible: 5.3 Max APNIC Region AS path length visible: 14 Number of APNIC addresses announced to Internet: 97742368 Equivalent to 5 /8s, 211 /16s and 110 /24s Percentage of available APNIC address space announced: 64.3 APNIC AS Blocks 4608 - 4864, 7467 - 7722, 9216 - 10239 17408 - 18431, 23552 - 24575 APNIC Address Blocks 61/8, 202/7, 210/7, 218/7 and 220/7 ARIN Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by ARIN Region ASes: 72293 Total ARIN prefixes after maximum aggregation: 46009 Prefixes being announced from the ARIN address blocks: 50847 Unique aggregates announced from the ARIN address blocks: 15576 ARIN Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 7759 ARIN Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 2546 ARIN Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 753 Average ARIN Region AS path length visible: 5.2 Max ARIN Region AS path length visible: 18 Number of ARIN addresses announced to Internet: 181229888 Equivalent to 10 /8s, 205 /16s and 89 /24s Percentage of available ARIN address space announced: 67.5 ARIN AS Blocks 1 - 1876, 1902 - 2042, 2044 - 2046, 2048 - 2106 2138 - 2584, 2615 - 2772, 2823 - 2829, 2880 - 3153 3354 - 4607, 4865 - 5119, 5632 - 6655, 6912 - 7466 7723 - 8191, 10240 - 12287, 13312 - 15359 16384 - 17407, 18432 - 20479, 21504 - 23551 25600 - 26591 ARIN Address Blocks 24/8, 63/8, 64/6, 68/7, 199/8, 204/6, 208/7 and 216/8 RIPE Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by RIPE Region ASes: 19657 Total RIPE prefixes after maximum aggregation: 14869 Prefixes being announced from the RIPE address blocks: 16289 Unique aggregates announced from the RIPE address blocks: 10077 RIPE Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 4066 RIPE Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 2199 RIPE Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 757 Average RIPE Region AS path length visible: 5.8 Max RIPE Region AS path length visible: 14 Number of RIPE addresses announced to Internet: 117783680 Equivalent to 7 /8s, 5 /16s and 60 /24s Percentage of available RIPE address space announced: 78.0 RIPE AS Blocks 1877 - 1901, 2043, 2047, 2107 - 2136, 2585 - 2614 2773 - 2822, 2830 - 2879, 3154 - 3353, 5377 - 5631 6656 - 6911, 8192 - 9215, 12288 - 13311, 15360 - 16383 20480 - 21503, 24576 - 25599 RIPE Address Blocks 62/8, 80/7, 193/8, 194/7, 212/7 and 217/8 LACNIC Region Analysis Summary ------------------------------ Prefixes being announced by LACNIC Region ASes: 4812 Total LACNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 2079 Prefixes being announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 4222 Unique aggregates announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 2619 LACNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 314 LACNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 80 LACNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 67 Average LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 6.0 Max LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 17 Number of LACNIC addresses announced to Internet: 11311872 Equivalent to 0 /8s, 172 /16s and 155 /24s Percentage of available LACNIC address space announced: 67.4 LACNIC AS Blocks 26592 - 26623 LACNIC Address Blocks 200/8 APNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ---------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 1221 1197 1187 881 Telstra Pty Ltd 703 396 368 311 UUNET 2907 359 1815 339 SINET Japan 2764 345 357 317 connect.com.au pty ltd 7474 305 275 205 Optus Communications Pty Ltd 4134 290 2268 96 Data Communications Bureau 17557 288 21 110 Pakistan Telecom 4755 253 141 73 Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Aut 4766 249 1808 157 Korea Internet Exchange for " 4814 224 80 16 China Telecom (Group) 17676 221 3458 32 XTAGE CORPORATION 9443 185 57 70 Primus Telecommunications 9583 175 32 5 Satyam Infoway Ltd., 4515 139 102 80 Star Internet Services Ltd. 9768 136 385 74 Korea Telecom 7657 128 22 85 The Internet Group Limited 9800 122 188 24 CHINA UNICOM 4739 117 56 108 Commerical Internet eXchange 4713 116 1049 105 NTT Communications Corporatio 9498 109 8 21 BHARTI BT INTERNET LTD. ARIN Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 701 1787 9245 1287 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 7018 1323 7184 932 AT&T 1239 1121 3178 653 Sprint 3908 1047 1652 508 Supernet, Inc. 852 750 1145 454 Telus Advanced Communications 7843 713 371 304 Adelphia Corp. 1 657 8088 434 GENUITY 7132 602 638 140 Southwestern Bell Internet Se 7046 590 879 311 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 4323 523 435 165 Time Warner Communications, I 209 521 2066 348 Qwest 690 517 75 324 Merit Network 7066 488 204 258 Virginia Polytechnic Institut 2548 447 1118 274 Business Internet, Inc. 3549 418 727 298 Global Crossing 705 409 130 199 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 4355 382 292 104 EarthLink, Inc. 6197 382 597 39 BellSouth Network Solutions, 2914 368 2027 361 Verio, Inc. 15290 361 230 178 AT&T Canada IES RIPE Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 702 872 2406 727 UUNET - Commercial IP service 3301 385 907 341 TeliaNet Sweden 3215 294 677 170 France Telecom Transpac 3320 243 1966 221 Deutsche Telekom AG 680 238 2151 234 DFN-IP service G-WiN 5400 215 86 102 BT Ignite European Backbone 5515 214 783 177 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 1257 202 444 199 SWIPnet Swedish IP Network 719 190 306 130 LANLINK autonomous system 786 177 1873 177 The JANET IP Service 8708 148 41 143 Romania Data Systems S.A. 3303 143 532 142 Swisscom Ltd 2856 132 786 122 BTnet UK Regional network 12302 124 18 31 MobiFon S.A. 3246 123 373 116 Song Networks 5511 109 189 87 France Telecom 8220 108 168 101 COLT Internet - International 3233 107 10 8 RNC - Romanian Natioanal R&D 2874 104 85 40 Global One Services AB 3269 104 658 63 TELECOM ITALIA LACNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ----------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 8151 199 298 110 UniNet S.A. de C.V. 7303 172 27 50 Telecom Argentina Stet-France 11172 167 88 34 Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V 6503 159 206 113 AVANTEL, S.A. 10834 146 75 34 ADVANCE TELECOMUNICACIONES S. 16814 107 7 13 NSS, S.A. 13999 103 19 8 Mega Cable S.A. de C.V. 6140 99 76 27 ImpSat USA, Inc. 10620 93 6 29 TVCABLE BOGOTA 11340 80 2 25 Red Universitaria Nacional 15034 74 6 32 TIBA SA 1916 73 409 40 Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa 11992 70 7 30 Integrated Systems 4270 68 18 10 Red de Interconexion Universi 15311 68 24 31 Telefonica Empresas 2277 66 16 3 ECUANET - CORPORACION ECUATOR 7984 66 27 42 Global One Colombia 4926 64 4 52 Telintar S.A. 8065 59 6 16 Empresas Publicas de Medellin 16528 57 5 35 ImpSat S.A. Global Per AS Maximum Aggr summary ---------------------------------- ASN No of nets Net Savings Description 3908 1047 539 Supernet, Inc. 1239 1121 468 Sprint 7132 602 462 Southwestern Bell Internet Se 7843 713 409 Adelphia Corp. 7018 1323 391 AT&T 4323 523 358 Time Warner Communications, I 6197 382 343 BellSouth Network Solutions, 1221 1197 316 Telstra Pty Ltd 852 750 296 Telus Advanced Communications 7046 590 279 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 4355 382 278 EarthLink, Inc. 6347 346 268 SAVVIS Communications Corpora 18566 272 268 Covad Communications 4151 279 264 USDA 376 343 233 Reseau Interordinateurs Scien 7066 488 230 Virginia Polytechnic Institut 1 657 223 GENUITY 705 409 210 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 4814 224 208 China Telecom (Group) 11492 215 201 Cable One List of Unregistered ASNs (Global) ---------------------------------- Bad AS Designation Network Transit AS Description 65011 PRIVATE 207.8.204.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.8.227.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 5757 UNALLOCATED 207.19.224.0/24 701 UUNET Technologies, 65506 PRIVATE 207.106.30.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.106.58.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.106.90.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.106.122.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio Advertised Unregistered Addresses --------------------------------- Network Origin AS Description 39.0.0.0/8 4554 Exchange Point Blocks 132.0.0.0/10 568 DISO-UNRRA 134.137.0.0/16 7170 AT&T Government Markets 135.0.0.0/13 10455 Lucent Technologies 137.0.0.0/13 568 DISO-UNRRA 138.94.0.0/16 1 GENUITY 158.0.0.0/13 568 DISO-UNRRA 164.233.0.0/16 6020 DISA NETWORK SERVICES 164.236.0.0/16 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.31.242.0/24 771 NASA Ames Research Center 192.44.0.0/19 702 UUNET - Commercial IP service 192.72.0.0/18 4780 Digital United Inc. 192.72.0.0/16 4780 Digital United Inc. 192.83.16.0/20 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.32.0/19 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.96.0/22 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.100.0/24 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.91.198.0/24 2568 CTS Network Services 192.119.135.0/24 270 NASA 192.135.50.0/24 7018 AT&T 192.136.79.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.86.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.87.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.88.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.136.0/24 7046 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 192.136.136.0/22 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.139.62.0/24 6539 GT Group Telecom Services Cor 192.140.0.0/16 5511 France Telecom 192.153.136.0/21 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.156.0.0/19 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.156.164.0/24 19548 Adelphia Business Solutions 192.172.0.0/19 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.208.29.0/24 3908 Supernet, Inc. 192.208.30.0/23 3908 Supernet, Inc. 192.243.36.0/23 2044 AUSNet, Inc. Number of prefixes announced per prefix length (Global) ------------------------------------------------------- /1:0 /2:0 /3:0 /4:0 /5:0 /6:0 /7:0 /8:19 /9:6 /10:7 /11:12 /12:37 /13:89 /14:236 /15:428 /16:7272 /17:1501 /18:2690 /19:7876 /20:7533 /21:5285 /22:8097 /23:9823 /24:63807 /25:165 /26:221 /27:115 /28:83 /29:48 /30:88 /31:0 /32:55 Advertised prefixes smaller than registry allocations ----------------------------------------------------- ASN No of nets Total ann. Description 3908 618 1047 Supernet, Inc. 702 536 872 UUNET - Commercial IP service 7843 524 713 Adelphia Corp. 701 487 1787 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 690 465 517 Merit Network 1239 445 1121 Sprint 7018 407 1323 AT&T 7066 386 488 Virginia Polytechnic Institut 7046 276 590 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 18566 268 272 Covad Communications 6197 267 382 BellSouth Network Solutions, 6198 241 310 BellSouth Network Solutions, 3301 228 385 TeliaNet Sweden 3215 225 294 France Telecom Transpac 4355 220 382 EarthLink, Inc. 11492 210 215 Cable One 1580 198 211 ANOSCEUR 209 193 521 Qwest 5400 189 215 BT Ignite European Backbone 705 185 409 UUNET Technologies, Inc. Number of /24s announced per /8 block (Global) ---------------------------------------------- 4:2 12:550 13:10 15:4 17:7 20:5 24:849 25:1 32:41 38:18 40:7 44:1 55:1 57:14 61:355 62:240 63:1918 64:1273 65:1573 66:1172 67:107 68:159 80:295 81:60 128:66 129:147 130:21 131:55 132:11 133:2 134:130 135:9 136:583 137:100 138:158 139:69 140:151 141:73 142:71 143:48 144:142 145:17 146:251 147:143 148:248 149:78 150:42 151:61 152:297 153:38 154:9 155:105 156:102 157:111 158:65 159:136 160:23 161:72 162:123 163:88 164:261 165:126 166:106 167:269 168:284 169:57 170:177 171:3 192:5384 193:2407 194:2019 195:812 196:427 198:3601 199:3081 200:2613 202:3394 203:4774 204:3297 205:2153 206:2419 207:2485 208:2614 209:2590 210:607 211:245 212:889 213:716 214:7 215:19 216:2916 217:502 218:44 219:2 End of report

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The Cidr Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 20 Sep '02

20 Sep '02

This report has been generated at Mon Sep 16 18:33:13 2002 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of the Route-Views router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://bgp.potaroo.net/cidr for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 09-09-02 121168 88703 10-09-02 121129 88787 11-09-02 121290 88946 12-09-02 121145 87146 13-09-02 121338 87745 14-09-02 121318 87720 15-09-02 121238 87859 16-09-02 122134 87830 Possible Bogus Routes 39.0.0.0/8 AS4554 EP0-BLK-ASNBLOCK-4 Exchange Point Blocks AS Summary 13914 Number of ASes in routing system 5301 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix 1804 Largest number of prefixes announced by an AS AS209 : ASN-QWEST Qwest 73154816 Largest address span announced by an AS (/32s) AS568 : SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA Aggregation Summary The algorithm used in this report proposes aggregation only when there is a precise match using the AS path, so as to preserve traffic transit policies. Aggregation is not proposed across non-advertised address space ('holes'). --- 16Sep02 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description Table 121976 88656 33320 27.3% All ASes AS209 1804 1042 762 42.2% ASN-QWEST Qwest AS3908 1133 650 483 42.6% SUPERNETASBLK SuperNet, Inc. AS2548 1581 1127 454 28.7% ICIX-MD-AS Business Internet, Inc. AS7132 601 183 418 69.6% SBIS-AS Southwestern Bell Internet Services AS701 1762 1351 411 23.3% ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS7018 1349 959 390 28.9% ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services AS1221 1301 939 362 27.8% ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd AS4323 645 307 338 52.4% TW-COMM Time Warner Communications, Inc. AS7046 607 312 295 48.6% UUNET-CUSTOMER UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS6197 383 97 286 74.7% BATI-ATL BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS852 737 456 281 38.1% ASN852 Telus Advanced Communications AS7843 664 386 278 41.9% ADELPHIA-AS Adelphia Corp. AS18566 270 4 266 98.5% COVAD Covad Communications AS4151 284 32 252 88.7% USDA-1 USDA AS1 682 449 233 34.2% GNTY-1 Genuity AS6347 396 180 216 54.5% DIAMOND SAVVIS Communications Corporation AS4814 233 34 199 85.4% CHINANET-BEIJING-AP China Telecom (Group)Beijing Telecom CompanyBeijing China AS690 519 326 193 37.2% NSFNET-T3-RT-AS Merit Network Inc. AS4355 360 170 190 52.8% ERMS-EARTHLNK EARTHLINK, INC AS1239 851 662 189 22.2% SprintLink Sprint AS2386 418 233 185 44.3% INS-AS AT&T Data Communications Services AS4134 302 118 184 60.9% ERX-CHINALINK Data Communications Bureau AS6595 244 74 170 69.7% DODDSEUR DoD Education Activity Network Assistance Center AS3356 392 226 166 42.3% LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC AS1791 186 23 163 87.6% SPRINTLINK3 Sprint Government Systems Division AS11371 169 7 162 95.9% UUNET-AS-11371 UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS376 341 184 157 46.0% RISQ-AS Reseau Interordinateurs Scientique Quebecois (RISQ) AS17676 220 65 155 70.5% GIGAINFRA APNIC ASN block AS6539 350 200 150 42.9% GROUPTLCOM GT Group Telecom Services Corp. AS577 424 275 149 35.1% BACOM Bell Advanced Communications Inc. Total 19208 11071 8137 42.4% Top 30 total Please see http://www.cidr-report.org for the full report ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)merit.edu eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)lists.apnic.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org

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Weekly Routing Table Report
by Routing Table Analysis 20 Sep '02

20 Sep '02

This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to bgp-stats(a)lists.apnic.net For a graphical representation, please see http://www.apnic.net/stats/bgp. If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <pfs(a)cisco.com>. Routing Table Report 20:00 +10GMT Fri 20 Sep, 2002 Analysis Summary ---------------- BGP routing table entries examined: 114692 Prefixes after maximum aggregation: 74114 Unique aggregates announced to Internet: 55245 Total ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 13774 Origin-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 11914 Origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 5352 Transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1860 Transit-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 62 Average AS path length visible in the Internet Routing Table: 5.4 Max AS path length visible: 23 Illegal AS announcements present in the Routing Table: 12 Non-routable prefixes present in the Routing Table: 0 Prefixes being announced from the IANA Reserved Address blocks: 36 Number of addresses announced to Internet: 1189119916 Equivalent to 70 /8s, 224 /16s and 135 /24s Percentage of available address space announced: 32.1 Percentage of allocated address space announced: 58.8 Percentage of available address space allocated: 54.6 Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 47095 APNIC Region Analysis Summary ----------------------------- Prefixes being announced by APNIC Region ASes: 18750 Total APNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 11397 Prefixes being announced from the APNIC address blocks: 17261 Unique aggregates announced from the APNIC address blocks: 10929 APNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1617 APNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 531 APNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 279 Average APNIC Region AS path length visible: 5.3 Max APNIC Region AS path length visible: 12 Number of APNIC addresses announced to Internet: 97317856 Equivalent to 5 /8s, 204 /16s and 243 /24s Percentage of available APNIC address space announced: 64.0 APNIC AS Blocks 4608 - 4864, 7467 - 7722, 9216 - 10239 17408 - 18431, 23552 - 24575 APNIC Address Blocks 61/8, 202/7, 210/7, 218/7 and 220/7 ARIN Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by ARIN Region ASes: 71523 Total ARIN prefixes after maximum aggregation: 45806 Prefixes being announced from the ARIN address blocks: 50330 Unique aggregates announced from the ARIN address blocks: 15470 ARIN Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 7743 ARIN Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 2547 ARIN Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 743 Average ARIN Region AS path length visible: 5.2 Max ARIN Region AS path length visible: 23 Number of ARIN addresses announced to Internet: 181080384 Equivalent to 10 /8s, 203 /16s and 17 /24s Percentage of available ARIN address space announced: 67.5 ARIN AS Blocks 1 - 1876, 1902 - 2042, 2044 - 2046, 2048 - 2106 2138 - 2584, 2615 - 2772, 2823 - 2829, 2880 - 3153 3354 - 4607, 4865 - 5119, 5632 - 6655, 6912 - 7466 7723 - 8191, 10240 - 12287, 13312 - 15359 16384 - 17407, 18432 - 20479, 21504 - 23551 25600 - 26591 ARIN Address Blocks 24/8, 63/8, 64/6, 68/7, 199/8, 204/6, 208/7 and 216/8 RIPE Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by RIPE Region ASes: 19553 Total RIPE prefixes after maximum aggregation: 14816 Prefixes being announced from the RIPE address blocks: 16175 Unique aggregates announced from the RIPE address blocks: 10715 RIPE Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 4039 RIPE Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 2190 RIPE Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 755 Average RIPE Region AS path length visible: 5.8 Max RIPE Region AS path length visible: 16 Number of RIPE addresses announced to Internet: 113790080 Equivalent to 6 /8s, 200 /16s and 76 /24s Percentage of available RIPE address space announced: 75.4 RIPE AS Blocks 1877 - 1901, 2043, 2047, 2107 - 2136, 2585 - 2614 2773 - 2822, 2830 - 2879, 3154 - 3353, 5377 - 5631 6656 - 6911, 8192 - 9215, 12288 - 13311, 15360 - 16383 20480 - 21503, 24576 - 25599 RIPE Address Blocks 62/8, 80/7, 193/8, 194/7, 212/7 and 217/8 LACNIC Region Analysis Summary ------------------------------ Prefixes being announced by LACNIC Region ASes: 4858 Total LACNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 2095 Prefixes being announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 4207 Unique aggregates announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 2631 LACNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 315 LACNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 84 LACNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 70 Average LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 6.0 Max LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 17 Number of LACNIC addresses announced to Internet: 11206656 Equivalent to 0 /8s, 171 /16s and 0 /24s Percentage of available LACNIC address space announced: 66.8 LACNIC AS Blocks 26592 - 26623 LACNIC Address Blocks 200/8 APNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ---------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 1221 1196 1187 881 Telstra Pty Ltd 703 392 367 307 UUNET 2907 361 1832 340 SINET Japan 2764 348 357 321 connect.com.au pty ltd 7474 306 275 206 Optus Communications Pty Ltd 4134 292 2268 96 Data Communications Bureau 17557 283 21 111 Pakistan Telecom 4755 260 142 75 Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Aut 4766 248 1792 156 Korea Internet Exchange for " 4814 221 79 15 China Telecom (Group) 17676 220 3442 29 XTAGE CORPORATION 9443 184 57 70 Primus Telecommunications 9583 175 32 5 Satyam Infoway Ltd., 9768 145 385 74 Korea Telecom 4515 138 102 79 Star Internet Services Ltd. 7657 128 22 89 The Internet Group Limited 9800 122 188 24 CHINA UNICOM 4739 117 56 108 Commerical Internet eXchange 4713 116 1049 105 NTT Communications Corporatio 9498 102 8 23 BHARTI BT INTERNET LTD. ARIN Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 701 1798 9246 1295 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 7018 1318 7193 934 AT&T 3908 1045 1652 507 Supernet, Inc. 1239 853 3194 656 Sprint 852 743 1160 455 Telus Advanced Communications 7843 665 372 250 Adelphia Corp. 1 656 8088 433 GENUITY 7132 601 654 141 Southwestern Bell Internet Se 7046 590 863 313 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 4323 527 435 165 Time Warner Communications, I 690 519 75 326 Merit Network 209 514 2066 347 Qwest 7066 490 204 258 Virginia Polytechnic Institut 2548 444 1118 272 Business Internet, Inc. 3549 417 727 300 Global Crossing 6197 381 597 39 BellSouth Network Solutions, 4355 363 289 87 EarthLink, Inc. 15290 363 230 180 AT&T Canada IES 2914 362 2026 357 Verio, Inc. 6347 346 371 78 SAVVIS Communications Corpora RIPE Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 702 878 2414 732 UUNET - Commercial IP service 3301 387 907 343 TeliaNet Sweden 3215 292 673 179 France Telecom Transpac 3320 249 1965 215 Deutsche Telekom AG 680 238 2151 234 DFN-IP service G-WiN 5515 215 783 178 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 5400 214 86 101 BT Ignite European Backbone 1257 202 444 199 SWIPnet Swedish IP Network 719 189 306 130 LANLINK autonomous system 786 177 1873 177 The JANET IP Service 8708 147 41 142 Romania Data Systems S.A. 3303 143 532 142 Swisscom Ltd 2856 125 785 115 BTnet UK Regional network 12302 124 18 31 MobiFon S.A. 3246 123 373 116 Song Networks 5511 110 192 88 France Telecom 3233 108 10 9 RNC - Romanian Natioanal R&D 3269 104 658 63 TELECOM ITALIA 8220 104 167 98 COLT Internet - International 2874 103 85 40 Global One Services AB LACNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ----------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 8151 189 305 106 UniNet S.A. de C.V. 7303 171 27 49 Telecom Argentina Stet-France 11172 167 88 34 Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V 6503 161 191 116 AVANTEL, S.A. 11340 147 4 48 Red Universitaria Nacional 10834 145 91 34 ADVANCE TELECOMUNICACIONES S. 16814 107 7 13 NSS, S.A. 13999 103 19 8 Mega Cable S.A. de C.V. 6140 95 52 23 ImpSat USA, Inc. 10620 93 6 29 TVCABLE BOGOTA 15034 76 6 31 TIBA SA 1916 72 409 40 Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa 11992 72 7 29 Integrated Systems 2277 69 16 3 ECUANET - CORPORACION ECUATOR 7984 69 27 43 Global One Colombia 4270 68 18 10 Red de Interconexion Universi 15311 68 24 31 Telefonica Empresas 4926 65 4 53 Telintar S.A. 8065 59 6 16 Empresas Publicas de Medellin 7993 58 9 30 Global One Chile Global Per AS Maximum Aggr summary ---------------------------------- ASN No of nets Net Savings Description 3908 1045 538 Supernet, Inc. 7132 601 460 Southwestern Bell Internet Se 7843 665 415 Adelphia Corp. 7018 1318 384 AT&T 4323 527 362 Time Warner Communications, I 6197 381 342 BellSouth Network Solutions, 1221 1196 315 Telstra Pty Ltd 852 743 288 Telus Advanced Communications 7046 590 277 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 4355 363 276 EarthLink, Inc. 4151 285 270 USDA 6347 346 268 SAVVIS Communications Corpora 18566 272 268 Covad Communications 376 343 233 Reseau Interordinateurs Scien 7066 490 232 Virginia Polytechnic Institut 1 656 223 GENUITY 4814 221 206 China Telecom (Group) 1580 211 199 ANOSCEUR 11492 209 198 Cable One 1239 853 197 Sprint List of Unregistered ASNs (Global) ---------------------------------- Bad AS Designation Network Transit AS Description 578 UNALLOCATED 199.243.116.0/22 577 Bell Advanced Commun 64562 PRIVATE 203.152.128.0/21 11919 Loral Orion Services 64562 PRIVATE 203.152.136.0/21 11919 Loral Orion Services 65011 PRIVATE 207.8.204.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.8.227.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 5757 UNALLOCATED 207.19.224.0/24 701 UUNET Technologies, 578 UNALLOCATED 207.61.186.0/24 577 Bell Advanced Commun 65506 PRIVATE 207.106.30.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.106.58.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.106.90.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 65011 PRIVATE 207.106.122.0/24 4231 You Tools Corporatio 578 UNALLOCATED 216.209.156.0/24 577 Bell Advanced Commun Advertised Unregistered Addresses --------------------------------- Network Origin AS Description 39.0.0.0/8 4554 Exchange Point Blocks 132.0.0.0/10 568 DISO-UNRRA 134.137.0.0/16 7170 AT&T Government Markets 135.0.0.0/13 10455 Lucent Technologies 137.0.0.0/13 568 DISO-UNRRA 138.94.0.0/16 1 GENUITY 158.0.0.0/13 568 DISO-UNRRA 164.233.0.0/16 6020 DISA NETWORK SERVICES 164.236.0.0/16 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.31.242.0/24 771 NASA Ames Research Center 192.44.0.0/19 702 UUNET - Commercial IP service 192.58.92.0/24 19548 Adelphia Business Solutions 192.72.0.0/18 4780 Digital United Inc. 192.72.0.0/16 4780 Digital United Inc. 192.83.16.0/20 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.32.0/19 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.96.0/22 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.100.0/24 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.91.198.0/24 2568 CTS Network Services 192.119.135.0/24 270 NASA 192.135.50.0/24 7018 AT&T 192.136.79.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.86.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.87.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.88.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.136.0/24 7046 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 192.136.136.0/22 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.139.62.0/24 6539 GT Group Telecom Services Cor 192.140.0.0/16 5511 France Telecom 192.153.136.0/21 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.156.0.0/19 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.156.164.0/24 19548 Adelphia Business Solutions 192.172.0.0/19 568 DISO-UNRRA 192.208.29.0/24 3908 Supernet, Inc. 192.208.30.0/23 3908 Supernet, Inc. 192.243.36.0/23 7168 Northwest Link Number of prefixes announced per prefix length (Global) ------------------------------------------------------- /1:0 /2:0 /3:0 /4:0 /5:0 /6:0 /7:0 /8:18 /9:6 /10:7 /11:12 /12:36 /13:89 /14:236 /15:428 /16:7268 /17:1485 /18:2685 /19:7843 /20:7498 /21:5258 /22:8059 /23:9726 /24:63159 /25:204 /26:243 /27:137 /28:83 /29:48 /30:111 /31:0 /32:53 Advertised prefixes smaller than registry allocations ----------------------------------------------------- ASN No of nets Total ann. Description 3908 615 1045 Supernet, Inc. 702 538 878 UUNET - Commercial IP service 701 492 1798 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 7843 469 665 Adelphia Corp. 690 465 519 Merit Network 7018 399 1318 AT&T 7066 388 490 Virginia Polytechnic Institut 7046 279 590 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 18566 268 272 Covad Communications 6197 266 381 BellSouth Network Solutions, 6198 243 312 BellSouth Network Solutions, 1239 240 853 Sprint 3301 229 387 TeliaNet Sweden 3215 224 292 France Telecom Transpac 4355 205 363 EarthLink, Inc. 11492 205 209 Cable One 1580 198 211 ANOSCEUR 5400 188 214 BT Ignite European Backbone 209 187 514 Qwest 3320 180 249 Deutsche Telekom AG Number of /24s announced per /8 block (Global) ---------------------------------------------- 4:1 12:553 13:10 15:2 17:7 20:4 24:821 25:1 32:41 38:7 40:6 44:1 55:1 57:14 61:337 62:235 63:1844 64:1273 65:1504 66:1181 67:105 68:97 80:281 81:53 128:59 129:157 130:21 131:55 132:11 133:2 134:129 135:9 136:575 137:94 138:157 139:69 140:155 141:70 142:70 143:51 144:141 145:17 146:260 147:142 148:248 149:79 150:42 151:57 152:299 153:37 154:10 155:101 156:102 157:110 158:65 159:137 160:24 161:74 162:116 163:86 164:261 165:125 166:105 167:267 168:126 169:59 170:175 171:3 192:5382 193:2358 194:2024 195:800 196:431 198:3560 199:3084 200:2622 202:3376 203:4803 204:3271 205:2143 206:2408 207:2462 208:2559 209:2611 210:606 211:245 212:882 213:735 214:8 215:19 216:2896 217:495 218:46 219:2 End of report

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Route Flap Damping: Harmful ?
by Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX/UniVie 18 Sep '02

18 Sep '02

Dear RIPE Routing-WG members, at the RIPE43 meeting in Rhodes last week Randy Bush was giving an interesting presentation on recent observations of counterproductive effects of current implementations of BGP Route Flap Damp(en)ing. The presentation is available in Acrobat Reader format at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-43/presentations/ripe43-rout… Brief summary: Basically because of "Cascaded Withdrawals" a single original flap of a prefix may cause the route flap penalty to exceed the suppress threshold at some points (routers) in the Internet. Main reasons for this behaviour are the characteristics of BGP (path vector), variations in BGP timers and delays, algorythm, implementation and parameters of current Route Flap Damping. This phenomenon is also (though less clearly) described in RIPE-229 (Flap Damping Parameter Recommendation), as it was in its predecessors since early 1998: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-229.html#4.1 Only in late July this year I did again observe severe occurences of this phenomenon and was starting a conversation with Philip Smith (Cisco) and others. Now there is a SIGCOM 2002 Publication (August 2002) "Route Flap Damping Exacerbates Internet Routing Convergence" by Z.Mao and others: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zmao/Papers/sig02.pdf I would like to thank the authors for the excellent research and, as one of the authors of RIPE-229 and its predecessors, I'm acknowledging that we haven't yet been able to analyse this specific problem in detail, but have communicated it to e.g. the MERIT/IPMA project team. I'm therefore more than grateful that Z.Mao and his co-authors did finally investigate it and would like to propose to the RIPE Routing-WG that we formally acknowledge their work, and specifically support their conclusion. Comments are of course welcome ! Kind regards CP --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- --- Christian Panigl : Vienna University Computer Center - ACOnet --- --- VUCC - ACOnet - VIX : -------------------------------------------- --- --- Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Mail: Panigl(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at (CP8-RIPE) --- --- A-1010 Vienna / Austria : Tel: +43 1 4277-14032 (Fax: -9140) --- --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---

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Re: Route Flap Damping: Harmful ?
by Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX/UniVie 18 Sep '02

18 Sep '02

>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:46:25 +0100 >From: Tony Barber <acb(a)ukgateway.net> > >I agree with you that RIPE should acknowledge its support for this research. >I have a couple of observations to add before everyone agrees to go dropping >damping from their configurations: Thanks for your support Tony, of course, I was NOT suggesting to immediately obsolete RIPE-229 and to drop damping ;-) >1) Its hard to dispute that NO damping is better than the suppression of >constantly oscilating routes from my perspective, as a steady state *will* >always be reached. As Randy states, it may require less aggressive >parameters to achieve this. Remember when we started to draft the first version (RIPE-178), the goal was to get rid of exaggeratedly aggressive damping which was at that time applied by some major US carriers. I always was standing for a very "flat and gentle" damping approach but for the sake of getting the aggressive guys playing along we then compromised to "graded damping". >How important is it in this context to still have damping in place ? I'm inviting you to look at http://www.aco.net/lookingglass/lg.html [flap statistics] at that router (Cisco) we have configured flap damping according to RIPE-229 and we are receiving a full and undamped routing table through GEANT and GlobalCrossing (^20965_3549_). You can clearly see that something very weird is going on "somewhere". Looking at those flap statistics raises the question how much "less aggressive" the parameters should be :-( I don't think damping is still essential for the stability of todays core routers, but it obviously would be essential to improve the stability at some spots of the Internet and to improve convergence, either with a new version of BGP or a completely new inter-domain routing protocol. Kind regards CP

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