[79991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Apr 19 22:24:35 2005
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:54:05 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Tom Vest <tvest@pch.net>
Cc: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>,
Philip Matthews <matthews@nimcatnetworks.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <be6aed3a84e608a8a9e2018b18734776@pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/20/05, Tom Vest <tvest@pch.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> > That makes very little sense to me since the smaller providers can get
> > a /22 directly from ARIN.
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> Sometimes resources that are come from a regional registry are not
> welcomed by a national operator. This can go for AS numbers as well as
> addresses. And sometimes a national operator is the only way out.
Not welcomed as in, filtered out / these providers refuse to route them?
Or do they kick up a fuss on the lines of "you should approach only
me, or failing that the LIR, for IPs, don't let me catch you running
to the RIR next time"
srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
