[2199] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Address "portability"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Fleming)
Thu Mar 21 20:36:16 1996
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
To: "'Bill Manning'" <bmanning@isi.edu>,
Eric Kozowski
<kozowski@structured.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:14:38 -0600
On Thursday, March 21, 1996 7:13 AM, Bill Manning[SMTP:bmanning@isi.edu] =
wrote:
@>=20
@>=20
@> What is the general consensus of this group regarding the =
"portability" of=20
@> addresses in the 204/8 and 205/8 range? =20
@>=20
@
@ All address prefixes are portable. Their routability by any
@ given transit provider is always suspect and varies from time
@ to time.
@ This nomenclature has been foisted on the unsuspecting by well
@ intentioned people. This idea fosters the myth of global=20
@ reachability for any given prefix.
@
@--=20
@--bill
@
@
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WWW.ISI.EDU Has a New IP Address!
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As of March 21, 1996 10:30PDT, the ISI web server has a new IP address. =
If you have reached this page, it is because of one of the following =
reasons:
1.You have referred to www.isi.edu by its IP address, which has changed =
to 128.9.176.20, 2.You have referenced www.isi.edu and your Domain Name =
Service still has the old IP address. If this symptom persists after a =
resonable amount of time, please contact your system administrator with =
the information from number 1. 3.You have made some other reference that =
does not point to our new web server.=20
To get to our new server, use:
http://www.isi.edu/ if you landed here using the old IP address
or
http://128.9.176.20/ if you've already tried www.isi.edu (see reason =
number 2 above).=20
Please make a note of this change.=20
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# ping www.iana.org
PING VENERA.ISI.EDU (128.9.176.32): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.9.176.32: icmp_seq=3D0 ttl=3D246 time=3D90.023 ms
64 bytes from 128.9.176.32: icmp_seq=3D3 ttl=3D246 time=3D80.949 ms
64 bytes from 128.9.176.32: icmp_seq=3D4 ttl=3D246 time=3D85.716 ms
64 bytes from 128.9.176.32: icmp_seq=3D5 ttl=3D246 time=3D80.661 ms
64 bytes from 128.9.176.32: icmp_seq=3D6 ttl=3D246 time=3D86.847 ms
^C
--- VENERA.ISI.EDU ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 28% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max =3D 80.661/84.839/90.023 ms
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Portability in action....it looks like IANA has moved 12 doors down the =
street...
--
Jim Fleming
UNETY Systems, Inc.
Naperville, IL 60563
e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
