[11330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Gibson)
Sat Jul 26 15:47:22 1997
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:27:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Gibson <tim@taggnet.skyscape.net>
To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
cc: Kim Hubbard <kimh@internic.net>, Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>,
root@gannett.com, hcb@clark.net, jan.novak@aliatel.cz, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970725220750.02703a7c@207.87.243.20>
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Eric Germann wrote:
> Go back and sweep MCI and PSI and Sprint et. al. and SEE what they really
> use. Then follow your own guidelines and maybe the startups won't bitch so
> much...
>
> You can bet when people start paying for addresses there gonna be pretty
> pissed when they aren't fully routable.
>
Eric,
Ping sweeping will only give NSI/InterNIC a rough estimate of
current online use. A route could be down at the time of sweep on one
end, and on the other a single web box could be using 50 IPs. Changes
would deffinately be welcome in policy. Policing via an "are you awake"
really shouldn't be one of them.
BTW I am one of those that constantly has to scrounge for IP space.
Tim Gibson
Skyscape Communications
