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Thus spake John Fraizer >At 06:58 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote: >>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." OK, but I still disagree, even with the revised statement. :) >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. Mostly because reverse lookups for blocks longer than /24's is still a hassle...it can be done, but is still a hassle...oh...and some things still break with CNAME -> PTR (a recent discussion on BUGTRAQ illuminates one) -- Jeff McAdams Email: [email protected] Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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