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At 02:12 PM 7/25/97 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Eric Germann wrote: > >> negates the whole purpose of multihoming from their perspective. Does >> Gannett or Pointcast have >= 8K hosts exposed on their DMZ networks? > >No, but we have around 8K devices using our legal address space. Just >because I don't currently expose my hosts doesn't mean I don't want the >option to be able to. When we registered, firewalls weren't the >up-and-coming thing, but then I've also got a /23 being routed via my AS. > I completely subscribe to your option theory, however, I've been told and seen ping sweeps to see if the space is in use. And the other response is if you don't want them seen now, give them 10.x or 192.168, and use a proxy. So it doesn't fall under the NIC's and presumably ARIN's allocations policies. If the next PointCast says we can do it all in a /23 and we want PI space and we want you to route it, do any ISP's or NSP's prostitute their allocation/filtering beliefs for the almighty dollar? Why? I have a municipality building out a comm infrastructure. They want PI space. A mini @Home, if you will. Reponsible use says we only take what we need. In the initial phase (infrastructure buildout), they need probably a /23 at most. Using reponsible and aggressive management of allocation policies, they will grow up within a year or two to a /19 or larger. But their early customers are SOL for anything on the far side of Sprint, unless of course, we pay Sprint. And every other NSP who has a /19 filter in place. So we can't multihome, buy transit from a couple of good NSP's and let the economics drive our decision. >Most of that comes from the fact that my addresses are pre-CIDR customer >registered ones. Once again, it's back to the whole aggragation of >routes vs. disaggragation of traffic. > So getting in early is a good thing I suppose. Day late and a dollar short for the rest of 'em. ============================================================================ ==== Eric Germann Computer and Communications Technologies [email protected] Van Wert, OH 45891 Phone: 419 968 2640 http://www.cctec.com Fax: 419 968 2641 Network Design, Connectivity & System Integration Services A Microsoft Solution Provider
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