[2929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Zimmerman)
Mon May 13 22:24:03 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 22:17:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>
To: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605140037.RAA18638@osprey.webpros.com>
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Sanjay Dani wrote:
> On a global level, how useful would it be to base the decision
> on whether the client address belongs to the the InterNIC block,
> APNIC or the european registry ? I can live with exceptions
> such as an MCI customer in India gets redirected to the
> north american mirror server instead of the one in Singapore
> because their address belongs to an InterNIC allocated MCI
> block. How often do these exceptions happen ? Where can I
> find the association of address blocks and registries ?
I don't have any statistics on geographical exceptions, but the allocation
of IPv4 space by the IANA is available at
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipv4-address-space.
// Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc.
// mdz@netrail.net sales@netrail.net
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