[44329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN off the map
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Mon Nov 19 11:31:36 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:30:36 -0500
From: Joe Provo <joe.provo@rcn.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20011118200145.S39820-100000@unagi.cybernothing.org>; from patrick@cybernothing.org on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0800
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
[snip]
> > ICANN has nothing to do with routing, the world wide web, or lots
> > of other things on the Internet.
>
> No but the fact that sh ip bgp 192.0.0.0 results in "Network not in table"
> from every publicly available route server I've checked has everything to
> do with routing thus it would seem that this is somewhat operationally on
> topic.
>
> This isn't about ICANN per se, but rather about a good chunk of address space
> being unreachable for some unknown reason that has very little to do with
> "normal maintenance."
% whois -h whois.arin.net NET-ICANN
ICANN
c/o Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (NET-ICANN)
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
US
Netname: ICANN
Netblock: 192.0.32.0 - 192.0.47.255
[snip]
% host www.icann.org
www.icann.org has address 192.0.34.65
192.0.0.0/24 != 192.0.32.0/20
Sorry to throw cold water of facts onto politics, but if they were
publishing bad DNS info, they stopped.
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Network Deployment & Management, RCN <joe.provo@rcn.com>
