[AusNOG] Report on 1/8 traffic

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Geoff Huston wrote:

> I'm not sure that I can agree with the proposition that that level of traffic represents an unreasonable impost on ISPs in the region who are allocated address blocks from within 1/8.

I think the bigger concern is the fact that 1/8 has been included for many years on bogon lists everywhere - including default settings and even possibly hardcoded in some products/platform.

The problem may not be too much traffic, but rather unreachability.

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