[58849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS1880 - AS1883 - What are they?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Jun 3 10:31:45 2003
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:23:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3EDCADB7.2591AB49@greendragon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
I guess I now begin to understand why the IETF has to push ASNs to 32
bits. It's all one big technical joke.
-Hank
>
> Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
> >
> > Appears to be Peter Lothberg, I guess it is legit..
> >
> Ha!Knowing him, more likely to be a joke than legit!
>
>
> > http://www.stupi.se
> >
> > How about next time we do a quick lookup, and maybe try and contact the
> > listed contact before wasting everyones time?
> >
> Maybe that's good advice in general, but this was a nice humorous
> anecdote that brought back fond memories....I remember his high
> bandwidth link -- to the bathroom (T3? OC3?).
>
> There's an old tradition of interesting names for our networks, long
> lost in the commercialization of the Internet.Mine were fairly
> prosaic dream.net (192.138.173.0) and dreamer.net (192.138.226.0) --
> names stolen years ago by domain hijackers (I still announce the
> address blocks from time to time).Of course, there were those that
> castigated me for having a couple of "valuable" class C's -- in my
> living room....
>
> --
> William Allen Simpson
> Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
>
