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Re: ARIN?

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Tue Nov 10 20:15:17 1998

At 06:58 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
>>An _address_allocation_ that small just doesn't
>>require that level of public contact visibility."
>
>Here I disagree.  As I (and others have pointed out) there are people
>with /32's that have just as much administrative control over their IP
>"space" as someone with a /25 might have.  I have *several* customers,
>and we're not all that big of an ISP, that have *full* administrative
>control over their IP space with the one exception of reverse lookups.


I was quoting someone else and merely replaced the word "network" with
"address_allocation."

Why don't they have reverse lookups?  in-addr.arpa records control is the
only reason I care about having address space under my maintainer ID to
start with.


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