[128760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Aug 15 18:41:54 2010
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:41:43 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2iq3dq4wh.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/13/2010 19:55, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> when the registry work was re-competed and taken from sri to netsol (i
> think it was called that at the time), rick adams [0] put in a no cost
> bid to do it all with automated scripts. hindsight tells me we should
> have supported that much more strongly. and folk who think that would
> not have scaled, need to know that the netsol lowball solution was mark
> and scott in a basement with a sun3 and a 56k line.
>
Hah. Automated no-cost registration, meet automated registering script
with a dictionary plus random string generator.
~Seth
