Re: Additions to the NSFNET policy-based routing database

[Geoff Huston <G.Huston () aarnet edu au>]

Steve,

Thanks for your note - yes Jeff Burgan got back to me with more information
relating to the timing of a shift to a full CIDR based advertisement 
for Australian nets

> NASA may have reasons for doing it this way.  In general, we encourage 
> everyone to register any more-specific component pieces not needed in 
> the NSFNET/ANSnet configuration files in the Merit RRDB rather than in 
> the PRDB.  We have a "no configure" option flag in the PRDB to prevent 
> a more specific route from being configured if people tell us, but 
> bypassing the PRDB for direct RRDB registration is now the preferable
> option in such "no configure" cases.

thanks,

  Geoff
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