[23329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InterNIC - We put the "I" in incompetent.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Sun Mar 14 15:05:48 1999
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
gherbert@crl.com
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:02:13 -0800
From: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
>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.
Could be internally divided within a single external announcement
from one AS.
However, I think we all know this is nitpicking and the odds that
these systems are further apart than about 20 feet approach zero.
-george william herbert
gherbert@crl.com
