[38996] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: for folks tracking DDOS sources or reading the GRC attack log
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Sun Jun 24 22:00:04 2001
Message-Id: <200106250159.f5P1xNt23681@smtp.gwi.net>
To: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:18:10 EDT."
<5.1.0.14.2.20010623220630.01da2e30@10.30.15.2>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:59:23 -0400
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:18:10 -0400 RJ Atkinson wrote:
>
> 24.0/8 is the "cable block". ARIN normally allocates residential
> cable modem subnets out of this space. Nearly all the cable operators
> have one slice or another from this block. Nearly all North American
> cable modems users have address space in this block. Cable modems
> themselves are nearly always numbered in 10.0/8.
Perhaps "a cable modem block"? We tell ARIN we need networks for
cable modems and have never gotten an allocation from this block.
regards,
fletcher
