North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN to Allocate from 64.0.0.0/8
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:39:21AM -0500, Richard Jimmerson wrote: > > This is a reminder of ARIN's message sent to NANOG on > 10 September, 1999. > > On November 22, 1999, ARIN will begin making allocations from > the 64.0.0.0/8 block. This will include allocations of /20 > and shorter prefixes, according to ARIN's minimum allocation > policy. I might almost be happy, except this breaks the oh-so-nice filter of 64.0.0.0/2 at borders (effectively reduces random src spoofed attacks by 25%, and covers 127.0.0.0/8 as well). Go ARIN. </sarcasm> -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://users.quadrunner.com/humble PGP Key ID: 0x60AB0AD1 (E5 35 10 1D DE 7D 8C A7 09 1C 80 8B AF B9 77 BB) AboveNet Communications - AboveSecure Network Security Engineer, Vienna VA
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