[56534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 69/8...this sucks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Mar 10 15:36:43 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:35:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@five-elements.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1047327832.692.4470.camel@intrepid>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 10 Mar 2003, Jeff S Wheeler wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 23:15, Jack Bates wrote:
> > In defense of ARIN, the ice on a net block has to be broken at some point.
> > They could wait 3 years and notify every list every hour of every day for
> > those 3 years and there would still be many networks filtering those
> > networks. The only way to catch it is to notice the block and make contact
> > with the network. In many cases, personal contact is necessary as emails are
> > often misunderstood or ignored.
>
> I repeat my suggestion that a number of DNS root-servers or gtld-servers
> be renumbered into 69/8 space. If the DNS "breaks" for these neglected
> networks, I suspect they will quickly get enough clue to fix their ACLs.
>
> Add Eddy's suggestion that the addresses all end in .0 or .255 and you
> have a fine machine for cleaning up a few old, irritating problems.
Nice idea in principal (from a purist point of view) but its not practical, I
hope your not serious..!
Steve
