[16517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two renumbering questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ravi Pina)
Wed Apr 29 22:46:05 1998
From: Ravi Pina <ravi@bird.iagnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.980429214808.3334D-100000@ivan.iecc.com> from John R Levine at "Apr 29, 98 09:58:39 pm"
To: johnl@iecc.com (John R Levine)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:29:04 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> My ISP is changing upstreams for a variety of reasons around May 18th.
That is unfortunate.
>
> 1. I have a /24 SWIPed to me, 205.238.207.0. The ARIN listing doesn't say
> it's non-portable, so can I take it with me? And if I do, how likely is it
> that the new ISP's announcement will get installed in backbone routers
> rather than filtered for being too long? It's right in the middle of the old
> upstream's block 205.238.192/18.
If you *own* the block, you can do anything you want with it. I don't think
there is an issue with with routing, you just have to do it. Then again, I
may be wrong.
>
> 2. Assuming I have to renumber, I have a whole bunch of virtual domains all
> DNS served from one server in the renumbered space called ivan.iecc.com.
> (There's other servers elsewhere that won't get renumbered.) If I tell the
> Internic that ivan's host number has changed, will that update all the
> domains served from it?
Sure, a host modify (http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/itts/host) will set you
up. If you can, I'd try to overlap service so when things fubar, you can
always fallback to pieces-parts 'till you can figure things out :)
-ravi
