[126541] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Partial Use Of one Regions IP Block in another
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Net)
Thu May 20 17:51:32 2010
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE09EA45A3@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:51:18 -0400
From: Net <funkyfun@gmail.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>,
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thanks to all who replied and provided valuable input. Much appreciated
Regards,
On 5/20/10, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: joel jaeggli [mailto:joelja@bogus.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:05 AM
>> To: Owen DeLong
>> Cc: George Bonser; nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Partial Use Of one Regions IP Block in another
>>
>> On 2010-05-20 09:36, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> > We're scraping the bottom of the barrel for IPv4 space these days.
>> > It is what it is, and it's only going to get worse in IPv4. Time to
>> go
>> > to IPv6.
>>
>> in ipv6 we're using our arin /32 in all regions where we appear...
>>
>> joel
>
> Exactly. So migrating to v6 has no bearing on the conversation. The
> same "problem" (a problem which some people create themselves by relying
> on the source IP to determine geographic location) exists with either
> protocol. There is just no way to tell where the device initiating the
> conversation is located by looking at the IP and the extent to which you
> can tell by where the traffic enters your network depends on the
> temperature of the potato as perceived by the network downstream from
> you. Did they haul it across an ocean before handing it to you?
>
> Geographical location by IP address is just plain nuts, but people will
> find a way to sell anything, I suppose.
>
> George
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>
>
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