[78848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 72/8 friendly reminder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henk Uijterwaal)
Thu Mar 24 03:38:02 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:37:21 +0100
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: Henk Uijterwaal <henk@ripe.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050323190520.2CDFF3C04C7@berkshire.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 20:05 23/03/2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>In message <16961.47792.567033.407015@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
> >
> >>> 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.
> >
>
>
>That's a good idea. Maybe we can take it a step further: let each AS
>owner register an IP address with IANA or their RIR, and use this test
>box to ping the AS owner. It should be scalable -- there are only
>about 20k ASs, as I recall. The real expense, other than the single
>box per RIR, is developing the software that lets each AS register an
>IP address and an email address to contact if the pings fail.
You mean something like: http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon/debogon.html?
Addresses are for each /8 that the RIPE NCC gets from IANA, they are
announced from the day we get them from IANA until the time we start
allocating from this /8.
Henk
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