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Re: whoi modify question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Fri Jun 17 16:27:54 2011

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Darden <darden@armc.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DFB8A4D.5040503@armc.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Patrick Darden wrote:

> My mistake.  Apologies.

It happens, but:

> On 06/17/2011 01:03 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Darden, Patrick S. wrote:
>> 
>>> The short answer is you can't.  ARIN only cares about /24s or bigger.  If 
>>> the network were a /24 or larger, then your customer would need to get an 
>>> ASN (autonomous system number) and then you could register the network to 
>>> them.

I'm afraid there's also no requirement at all for an ASN regardless of 
the size of your address block.  ASNs are required for running BGP.  You 
can easily static route even a /8 (and I've done it on occasion).

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