[16916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat May 16 23:07:19 1998
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 19:51:51 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: karl@mcs.net, shields@crosslink.net
Cc: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net, jamie@ais.net, jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET,
nanog@merit.edu
> > Ok, so I only lose 16 T1 customers instead of 1024.
>
> If you lose 16 T1 customers during a renumbering of a /20, either you
> don't know how to renumber, or they were already unhappy for some
> other reason.
>
> If you tell your customers "You need to renumber because evil forces
> are colluding against us," they won't be very amenable... try
> explaining that they'll get better connectivity.
>
> The social and technical problems of renumbering a /20 are nonzero but
> not large.
>
> I've done it.
> --
> Shields, CrossLink.
>
Not always. I know of at least one case where a customer cannot (will not)
renumber out of a /24 because they (without commenting on the intellectual
prowess of this particular act) shipped a million CD's with the .128 IP
address in that class C hard coded into their game. Sure, it's only one IP,
one machine to renumber, but...
Owen
