[2025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Zimmerman)
Wed Mar 13 21:10:20 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:02:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>, "'com-priv list'" <com-priv@psi.com>,
"'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'NIC Registry list'" <nic-registry@internic.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960313163031.1054C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
[give ISP's blocks out of 65/8, 96/8?]
> Of course, there is one little problem with this....
>
> bash$ whois 65
> Air Force Logistics Command (ASN-LOGNET) LOGNET-AS 65
> IANA (RESERVED-7) Reserved 64.0.0.0 - 95.0.0.0
>
> bash$ whois 96
> Army Finance and Accounting Office (ASN-JTELS) JTELS-BEN1-AS 96
> IANA (RESERVED-8) Reserved 96.0.0.0 - 126.0.0.0
>
> How did these guys get such big chunks of address space reserved?
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The address space is theirs to
delegate in the first place. 64/8-126/8 is old Class-A space that is
"reserved indefinitely" according to RFC1466 (May '93).
// Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc.
// mdz@netrail.net sales@netrail.net
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