[16519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two renumbering questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo - Network Architect)
Wed Apr 29 22:56:58 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> My ISP is changing upstreams for a variety of reasons around May 18th.
>
> 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?
The ARIN db lost all portable/non-portable atributes in the conversion.
Unless folks have gone back and requested they get re-tagged,
portability is unclear from the ARIN db.
[snip]
> rather than filtered for being too long? It's right in the middle of the old
> upstream's block 205.238.192/18.
If it is a singleton hole in a /18, your most net-friendly action would
be to voluntarily renumber. The provider's most net-friendly action
would be to indicate it was non-portable.
[snip]
> (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?
Yes, that's the purpose of the HST record. Update the HST and you're
all set.
Joe
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