[78820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 72/8 friendly reminder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Mar 23 13:52:00 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:51:28 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> We were recently assigned a 72.244/16 allocation from ARIN. Friendly
>> reminder that ARIN started allocating 72/8 since Aug. If you have a
>> static bogon filters, can you please make sure they are updated. Thank
> if you are really worried about this, and i can understand your
> being so, then make it easy for the busy folk here (not those
> pontificating on law and morals in the rocky mountains) to test.
> give us an address we can ping.
a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would
be for the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued
by the iana, put up a pingable for that space and announce it on
the lists so we can all test BEFORE someone uses space from that
block.
randy
