Re: CIDR and aggregation offenders

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>]

Remember my idea of sending emails to the worst CIDR offenders?  Some may 
have thought it naive :-).  I sent to the #1 offender and here is what I 
got back:


> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.00 (3)
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:44:49 -0500
> Reply-To: dholmes () appliedtheory com
> From: "Douglas Holmes" <dholmes () appliedtheory com>
> To: hank () att net il
> Cc: support () appliedtheory com
> Subject: Ticket#38024
> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by MaX.att.net.il id 
> WAA73496
>
> Mr Nussbacher,
>
> AppliedTheory has performed a maintenance over the weekend to correct 
> non-aggregated routes were being leaked to the Internet by one of our peers.
>
> As you may have noticed, this was a rather sudden jump to the top of the 
> list. It appears that some of our non-aggregated routes were being leaked 
> to the Internet by one of our peers.
>
> We take our responsibility as citizens of the Internet community seriously 
> and therefore do our best to aggregate appropriately. We are regularly 
> reviewing the way we announce routes to the Internet to ensure that we are 
> doing what serves our customers' and the Internet community's best interests.
>
> After fixing the leak through our peer, I think you will find that we will 
> fall off the list of "worst offenders" very quickly.  Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas Holmes
> Day Team Leader
> Customer Support Center
>
>
>
> *************************************************
> >To: radb () appliedtheory com, vk () appliedtheory com,
> >hostmaster () appliedtheory com
> >From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>
> >Subject: Global routing table bloat
> >Hello.
> >Based on the CIDR report located at:
> >http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html
> >Applied Theory is the worst offender:
> >ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description
> >AS1785 593 370 223 37.6% AppliedTheory Communications
> >This means that the global BGP routing table is now close to 100,000
> >prefixes and your organization is listed as the worst offender for not
> >aggregating their prefixes when announcing them to the Internet.
> >I hope Applied Theory can take the time and fix up their prefix
> >announcements to the Internet so we all don't have to suffer.
> >Thanks,
> >Hank Nussbacher
> >