[23328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InterNIC - We put the "I" in incompetent.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sun Mar 14 14:57:22 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:54:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990314111224.01d16310@pgemail.pgexch.com>
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, I Am Not An Isp wrote:
> >> NS1.ENTERZONE.NET 209.41.244.5
> >> NS2.ENTERZONE.NET 209.41.244.6
> >
> >Hmm... same subnet...
>
> Michael, you should know better than that. I do not see a subnet mask on
> these IP addresses. There is nothing stopping a Network Operator from
> making these /32s and putting them on different networks.
Nothing except community consensus that it is a *BAD* thing to pollute the
global routing table with lots of long prefixes.
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