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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: DNS DOS increasing?
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:21:16AM +0100, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Joel Baker wrote: > > > BGP isn't expensive. Buying swamp space so you can DO it reasonably is. > > Last time I checked IP space was not assigned based on cash. If you have a > good reason to use PI space other then your PA space, RIPE/ARIN/APNIC will > assign it to you. What is officially approved of by the technical bodies, and what actually happens when money gets involved and people find a need to get around such bodies and are willing to pay to accomplish it, are two quite different things. Your statement is, however, not accurate. An *accurate* statement would be "If you have a reason they consider good". And even then, that doesn't get you out of the various filters across the net. Non-filtered IP space is a commodity which has been made valuble by the actions of some people with clout, as a consequence of the actions they take to protect their networks. Like any valuble commodity, people WILL find a way to aquire it for enough money. The gray market is most assuredly alive and well - and there is more than one way to play the shell game with ARIN/RIPE/APNIC to cover the facts of what you're doing, if you're in the market. Even if there wasn't - how much do you think it would take to bribe someone at ARIN? I'm sure that for *enough* money, you could manage it. They're only human. It would just raise the cost. After all, lots of folks still have a /8 - I would just *love* to see the RFC 2050 for justifying that. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [email protected] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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