[84710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [afnog] ARIN to allocate from 74/8 & 75/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Thomas)
Wed Sep 21 02:53:09 2005
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:50:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rob Thomas <robt@cymru.com>
To: Todd Underwood <todd@renesys.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050921014346.GS5285@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi, NANOGers.
] this has probably already been thought-out, but outbound reachability
] testing *from* the address block to a representative spread of
] addressing makes much more sense and would be much more indicative of
] forwarding (versus routing) problems, and would do so with some method
] and statistical reliability. presumably that is coming and just
] hasn't been discussed or carried out yet.
Yep, that's being done since we announced the prefixes.
More details to come shortly. :)
Todd, thanks for checking on these prefixes and sharing what you
see!
Thanks,
Rob.
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Rob Thomas
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Shaving with Occam's razor since 1999.
