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Re: hole punching reality check

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Oct 17 01:46:03 1996

To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:42:45 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0vDhrl-0007zlC@rip.psg.com> from "Randy Bush" at Oct 16, 96 07:07:00 pm
From: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Reply-To: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)


  P is on crack;  send them back to school. Tell them to 'webster
  specific'.

  -alan

> 
> Provider P allocates a block of address space A to customer, I an ISP.
> 
> I allocates a /24, call it B, out of that block to one of their customers, C.
> 
> C later leaves ISP I and gets a wire directly from provider P.
> 
> I wishes to give C time to renumber.
> 
> I would expect the world to see the following announcements.
> 
> A - I announcing a shorter prefix, A
> B - P announcing a more specific for the /24 allocated to C
> 
> Is this not what we all expect?
> 
> Why I ask is we have provider P telling I that they should stop announcing A
> and instead announce a bunch of prefixes around the /24.
> 
> randy
> 


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Alan Hannan
Not Employed Networking, Ltd.
email: alan@mindvision.com.
phone: 402/488-0238

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