[36517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Mon Apr 9 23:03:45 2001
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In-Reply-To: <3AD23D35.3A09A418@ehsco.com> from "Eric A. Hall" at "Apr 9, 2001 03:52:37 pm"
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:54:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
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In the referenced message, Eric A. Hall said:
> 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.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (NET-TEST) IANA 192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.255
The above, iirc, is the appropriate netblock to use in documentation
examples. So, they have already assigned you and every other author in the
world a /24 to use.
