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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 02:44:27AM -0600, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > Just like to throw an interesting wrench into this whole discussion. > > Our current allocations are a /18 and a /19. > > Although we are growing fairly quickly here, we're actually seeing > negative address utilization here. > > The reason? > > We started to recommend to our larger customers that their > newly-redesigned switched 100Mb/s plus really-flat network might be better > served by the 10/8 or the equivalent /16 and /24 address blocks with a > proxy server. Better security, less address space utilization. > > When a customer who you allocated a /20 to releases it back after > renumbering into one of the 10/8-type blocks it makes a big difference > when your total allocated space is only equivalent to 6 /20's. > > Of course, this is only a temporary reduction, as we are adding several > POP's this summer which will consume more than has been reclaimed. > > I would be interested if anyone else has seen anything similar. > > - Forrest W. Christian ([email protected]) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com > Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yep. We've been doing the same thing for over a year; its temporary, but it will hold us for quite some time. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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