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Re: AS1880 - AS1883 - What are they?

  • From: Hank Nussbacher
  • Date: Tue Jun 03 10:33:39 2003

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:

I guess I now begin to understand why the IETF has to push ASNs to 32
bits.  It's all one big technical joke.

-Hank

> 
> Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
> >
> > Appears to be Peter Lothberg, I guess it is legit..
> >
> Ha!Knowing him, more likely to be a joke than legit!
> 
> 
> > http://www.stupi.se
> >
> > How about next time we do a quick lookup, and maybe try and contact the
> > listed contact before wasting everyones time?
> >
> Maybe that's good advice in general, but this was a nice humorous
> anecdote that brought back fond memories....I remember his high 
> bandwidth link -- to the bathroom (T3? OC3?).
> 
> There's an old tradition of interesting names for our networks, long
> lost in the commercialization of the Internet.Mine were fairly 
> prosaic dream.net (192.138.173.0) and dreamer.net (192.138.226.0) --
> names stolen years ago by domain hijackers (I still announce the
> address blocks from time to time).Of course, there were those that 
> castigated me for having a couple of "valuable" class C's -- in my
> living room....
> 
> --
> William Allen Simpson
>   Key fingerprint =  17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26  DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
>