[53708] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Arin Smack down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Disher)
Thu Nov 21 13:50:26 2002
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:47:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Disher <jdisher@parad.net>
To: "Martin Renschler (EWU)" <Martin.Renschler@ewu.ericsson.se>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ABE3B7D9D59ED311AEBC00508B0CAAE30E3BC538@eamsdnt700.sd.us.am.ericsson.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Martin Renschler (EWU) wrote:
>
> tried the link and entered my PacBell home DSL static IP address and was
> shocked to see my private name come up behind CustName field! Wrong
> Address though.
-snip-
> NetRange: 67.116.xxx.xxx - 67.116.xxx.xxx
> CIDR: 67.116.xxx.xxx/29
> Isn't this violating privacy rules? Geez!
Uh, well, no, AFAIK, it's a common practice (and a good idea, and
depending on your RR, possibly a requirement) to SWIP
allocations/assignments of /29 or larger.
They're just following BCP.
-j
