[21305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Mcadams)
Tue Nov 10 20:15:06 1998
To: John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net (John Fraizer)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:01:45 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981110195522.00740fcc@pop3.enterzone.net> from "John Fraizer" at Nov 10, 98 07:55:23 pm
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
Thus spake John Fraizer
>At 06:58 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
>>Here I disagree. As I (and others have pointed out) there are people
>>with /32's that have just as much administrative control over their IP
>>"space" as someone with a /25 might have. I have *several* customers,
>>and we're not all that big of an ISP, that have *full* administrative
>>control over their IP space with the one exception of reverse lookups.
>I was quoting someone else and merely replaced the word "network" with
>"address_allocation."
OK, but I still disagree, even with the revised statement. :)
>Why don't they have reverse lookups? in-addr.arpa records control is the
>only reason I care about having address space under my maintainer ID to
>start with.
Mostly because reverse lookups for blocks longer than /24's is still a
hassle...it can be done, but is still a hassle...oh...and some things
still break with CNAME -> PTR (a recent discussion on BUGTRAQ
illuminates one)
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