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On 10 Mar 2003, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 23:15, Jack Bates wrote: > > In defense of ARIN, the ice on a net block has to be broken at some point. > > They could wait 3 years and notify every list every hour of every day for > > those 3 years and there would still be many networks filtering those > > networks. The only way to catch it is to notice the block and make contact > > with the network. In many cases, personal contact is necessary as emails are > > often misunderstood or ignored. > > I repeat my suggestion that a number of DNS root-servers or gtld-servers > be renumbered into 69/8 space. If the DNS "breaks" for these neglected > networks, I suspect they will quickly get enough clue to fix their ACLs. > > Add Eddy's suggestion that the addresses all end in .0 or .255 and you > have a fine machine for cleaning up a few old, irritating problems. Nice idea in principal (from a purist point of view) but its not practical, I hope your not serious..! Steve
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