[118355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Mon Oct 19 22:14:38 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091020021016.GA2718@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:12:11 +1300
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 20/10/2009, at 3:10 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 03:07:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote:
>> On 20/10/2009, at 3:02 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>
>>> plus want the ability to take their address
>>> space with them when they change ISPs (because there are too many
>>> devices and applications that insist on having hard-coded IP
>>> addresses
>>> instead of using DNS, and because DNS tends to get cached more often
>>> than you'd sometimes like.
>>
>> That's why we have Unique Local Addresses.
>>
>
> but Nathan, they are only statistically unique.
Sure, but I don't think that changes my point.
Also if you want to increase your chances of uniqueness (which are
already pretty good if you're not using subnet 0 or 1 or whatever) you
can jump on to somewhere on the sixxs site and announce that you're
using a specific ULA prefix.
--
Nathan Ward
