[54041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Mon Dec 9 16:11:28 2002
To: todd@ipoutlet.com (Todd A. Blank)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:10:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Todd A. Blank" at Dec 09, 2002 10:28:33 AM
From: <bdragon@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I appreciate all of the discussion regarding this issue. Nothing has
> changed. This is getting worse. We spoke to one network on Friday that
> said they had cleared the problem, yet our users still can't go there.
>
> For those of you that feel this is not anyone's problem, and that the
> internet should just "work it out";
>
> I hereby challenge one of you to trade CIDRs with us. You take this
> 69.1.192.0/19 ARIN assigned us and you go spend your valuable time,
> resources, and money working out what seems to be "nobody's problem".
> Also, if you would like to come over and answer the support calls and
> explain to our customers why the competitor's networks can reach these
> sites, but ours can't. Hey - after all, it's just CIDR - it's all the
> same, right?
Ok, you give back the address space to the RIR and get a /19 from your
provider. There, problem solved.
