[36507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Mon Apr 9 19:45:08 2001
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From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
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> Actually, the last I heard is that they will sell down to a /24.
No. See http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html
"The minimum block of IP address space assigned by ARIN is a /20."
Also, they don't have any special-case handling that I am aware of. I
tried to get a private /24 to use for the topology examples in my books
and couldn't get one. ARIN outright refused the request even though I
could prove the need for it, and even though I didn't care about global
routing or reachability.
I was also told that any /24 that I might manage to acquire would be
revoked instead of transferred to me.
I honestly believe that ARIN is funded by stock ownership in NAT provder
technologies. They are the primary reason that we have NAT and RFC 1918
problems on the net everyday.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
