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Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?

  • From: Steven J. Richardson
  • Date: Tue Apr 18 08:25:09 1995 
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  >Date:         Tue, 18 Apr 95 10:13:35 IST
  >From: Hank Nussbacher <[email protected]>
  >Subject:      Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?
  >To: Curtis Villamizar <[email protected]>
  >cc: Peter Lothberg <[email protected]>, [email protected]
  >In-Reply-To:  Message of Mon, 17 Apr 1995 12:00:24 -0400 from <[email protected]>
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  >On Mon, 17 Apr 1995 12:00:24 -0400 you said:
  >>Curtis
  >>
  >>BTW- You might try a traceroute to an address in 140.222/16.  That's
  >>the ANS backbone.  For example, traceroute 140.222.32.62 would verify
  >>that you could reach ANS NY POP.  Traceroute 140.222.1.1 would give
  >>you a !H as soon as you reach an ANS interface (look for t3.ans.net in
  >>the DNS if the response is not from a 140.222 address).
  >
  >Will 140.222.0.0 continue to work?  We 'ip default-network 140.222.0.0'
  >and will have to change if this NSFnet backbone net ceases to exist.

AS 690 = NSFNET/ANSnet backbone AS, with backbone net 140.222/16

Just because NSFNET is going away doesn't mean that ANSnet is disappearing;
"reports of [its] death are extremely exaggerated"... ;-)

Steve Richardson/Merit

  >I would bet lots of smaller ISPs have this net out there in their
  >routing tables as gateway of last resort.
  >
  >Thanks,
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