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Re: NAT for an ISP

  • From: Rubens Kuhl Jr.
  • Date: Wed Jun 04 16:57:46 2003

ISPs that provide RFC1918 space should also provide recursive DNS services
that would stop all RFC1918 in-addrs before hitting root-servers and
guidance to their users so they do the same on their servers if they don't
forward requests to the ISP recursive resolver.


Rubens

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William S. Duncanson" <[email protected]>
To: "'Christopher J. Wolff'" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:45 PM
Subject: RE: NAT for an ISP


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| My first hop beyond my border for my home connection is a 10-net
| address.  Provider is RoadRunner.  So, yes, ISP's are using RFC1918
| space for access networks, which probably also has some bearing on
| the recent thread regarding the frequency of attempted lookups of
| RFC1918 in-addrs.
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| - -- 
| William S. Duncanson                        [email protected]
| The driving force behind the NC is the belief that the companies who
| brought us things like Unix, relational databases, and Windows can
| make an appliance that is inexpensive and easy to use if they choose
| to do that.
| - -- Scott Adams
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| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
| > Behalf Of Christopher J. Wolff
| > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 14:52
| > To: [email protected]
| > Subject: NAT for an ISP
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| >
| > Hello,
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| > I would like to know if any service providers have built their
| > access networks out using private IP space.  It certainly would
| > benefit the global IP pool but it may adversely affect users with
| > special
| > applications.  At any rate, it sounds like good fodder for a
| > debate.
| >
| > Regards,
| > Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO
| > Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
| > http://www.bblabs.com
| >
| >
| >
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