AS-SETs can get rather silly, I made a logarithmic graph showing the size of all AS-SETs when fully recursed in different ASNs. The top 500 are unworkably large to actually use. The top offender is AS39533:AS-PEERS (at 98484 ASNs), or but things like AS-DECIX are close by "Only" 100 or so ASNs. I can't really see how generating these is at all worth while, Given that right now there are 82684 ASNs (according to bgp.tools) in the table. I can't see how generating things that are bigger than the internet itself is useful. Most of the AS-SETs that are above 10,000 ASNs are IXP route servers, meaning the only real valid strategy to filtering IX route servers is to perform ROA validation, and basic prefix size/validity policy checks. If you are interested, the full list is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IP69v5saBXGimpvgJL76UAzxHj-jhQ3Bh4xDRt-1Nlo/edit?usp=sharing
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erincandescent@akko...
replied 25 Mar 2024 16:23 +0000
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@benjojo I feel like these days either the IXP RS is itself doing good prefix filtering (probably automated by IXP-Manager/arouteserver/etc), or you’re paying too much for your port.
benjojo
replied 25 Mar 2024 23:37 +0000
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