4.0.0.0/8?

[hank at efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher)]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

Newbie question:

If I do:
route-views>sho ip bgp 4.0.0.0
BGP routing table entry for 4.0.0.0/9, version 821994

why do I see the /9 and not the /8 by default?  If I do a specific lookup 
for 4.0.0.0/8 it is there as well.

Thanks,
Hank

> On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>
>> Did Level3 withdraw 4.0.0.0/8 today and start announcing it as two /9s?
>
> I don't know if it was today, but I see two /9s.
>
>