[25736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN to Allocate from 64.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Steenbergen)
Wed Nov 10 11:53:02 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:50:57 -0500
From: Richard Steenbergen <ras@above.net>
To: Richard Jimmerson <richardj@arin.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Message-ID: <19991110115057.B2046@above.net>
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In-Reply-To: <01BF2B67.DA21B050.richardj@arin.net>; from Richard Jimmerson on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:39:21AM -0500
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On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:39:21AM -0500, Richard Jimmerson wrote:
>
> This is a reminder of ARIN's message sent to NANOG on
> 10 September, 1999.
>
> On November 22, 1999, ARIN will begin making allocations from
> the 64.0.0.0/8 block. This will include allocations of /20
> and shorter prefixes, according to ARIN's minimum allocation
> policy.
I might almost be happy, except this breaks the oh-so-nice filter of
64.0.0.0/2 at borders (effectively reduces random src spoofed attacks
by 25%, and covers 127.0.0.0/8 as well). Go ARIN. </sarcasm>
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