[188356] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: So Cal Verizon Business FIOS to Frontier cutover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Azinger, Marla)
Fri Mar 18 12:24:50 2016
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From: "Azinger, Marla" <Marla.Azinger@FTR.com>
To: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:24:45 +0000
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Hi Paul
I will email you privately to address your concerns.
Regards
Marla Azinger
Supervisor Network ENG
IP Address Management
-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Henson
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:27 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: So Cal Verizon Business FIOS to Frontier cutover
So the transition from Verizon to Frontier is coming up, and I recently got=
a notice from Verizon pointing me to the following website:
http://meetfrontier.com/
Evidently one of the things Verizon did not sell to Frontier is their IP ad=
dress space, as it seems customers with static IP addresses are going to ha=
ve to change their allocations :(. I have five statics, and while it is not=
the end of the world, it will certainly be annoying to have to reconfigure=
not only my equipment but also update the configurations of my clients tha=
t access it and the other service providers I access who restrict based on =
it <sigh>. I was hoping to get some simple additional information regarding=
this migration, such as:
* How far in advance of the cutover will we be notified?
* How far in advance of the cutover will we be supplied with the new static=
IP addresses?
* How big will the cutover window be, and will it be attended or unattended=
?
* How will reverse DNS resolution be handled?
So I called the phone number on the website that was provided for questions=
or additional information. I'm not quite sure why they provided it, as the=
person who answered it had absolutely no information to provide other than=
that that was already on the website, and said they were unable to direct =
me to anyone who could provide any further information; I guess it was for =
people who needed the website read to them?
Any chance there is a Frontier engineer on the list who might be able to pr=
ovide this information, anonymously if necessary :)? Or someone who has gon=
e through a Verizon to Frontier FIOS static IP address transition in anothe=
r location who might describe their experience with the assumption it will =
be similar in California?
As far as reverse DNS, the only thing I can seem to find is this:
http://hostmaster.frontier.com/reverse.html
Which talks about "Business Class DSL and Dedicated Internet" customers, no=
t sure if it applies to FIOS? What I'd really like is to get my PTR entries=
delegated to me via CNAMEs so I could control the TTLs and update them whe=
never I wanted to without having to hassle the provider (one of my colleagu=
es has this arrangement with charter business cable), Verizon was never wil=
ling to do that.
On another note, does anybody have any idea regarding Frontier's position o=
n rolling out IPv6 for business FIOS :)? Hopefully they won't be quite as a=
rchaic and stuck in the mud as Verizon has been on that topic :(.
Thanks much for any info.
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