[16518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two renumbering questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Wed Apr 29 22:50:36 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:40:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: Ravi Pina <ravi@bird.iagnet.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199804300229.WAA00801@bird.iagnet.net>
> > 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.
Well, there's the question -- I have no idea who owns it. Look it up in
ARIN, it says it's mine, but with contact info from epix, the old upstream.
Again, though, even if I own it, if the announcements don't make it into the
backbone it's not very useful, and I gather that some backbones now filter at
/19 except for the swamp.
> 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 :)
My ISP (the local independent telco who is quite sharp) is doing what
they can but epix is less than helpful.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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