[144744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Sep 17 21:43:57 2011
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:42:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <462737ff-25e5-4846-9ac5-061cf580824b@zimbra.network1.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Carpenter" <rcarpen@network1.net>
> I have a small ISP customer who is not multi-homed, and is using about
> a /21 and a half of space, and is expanding. Their upstream is
> refusing to give them more space, so they wanted to get their own, and
> give back the space to the upstream, with the possible exception of a
> small block for their servers, which would be very difficult to
> renumber. We explained this all, and the response we got from ARIN was
> that we needed to have a full /20 from the upstream, at which time we
> could easily get a /20 of new space. In order to qualify for the
> immediate need, we would need to show need for the entire /20, of
> which we would need to fully utilize (renumber into) within 30 days.
> That is not even remotely possible.
And worse, it violates best practices[1] rather thoroughly.
Cheers,
-- jra
[1]Never expand to anything smaller than twice what you have now.
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
