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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: > Regarding the aggregation/deaggregation mess. This is due to the fact > that ARIN is rather strict with IP assignements and how we route > internally. > Because ARIN wants us to use 80% of our ip blocks, before we can request > new assignments from them we have to dole out addresses in /22's to each > city we have, in order to use them up appropriately. Its been a bit of a Are you saying you have POPs in dozens of cities and do not have your own network connecting them, but instead buy transit from verio, cogent, and at&t in each city and announce /22 subnets to them from each of these POPs using the same (15270) origin ASN with ASN loop detection disabled? > nightmare trying to meet ARIN's policies and also try to meet the > Internet Communities policies. Believe me, I would much rather advertise > a /16 prefix out to the Internet, rather then a /22. We have not been > able to accommodate this unfortunately. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:31 AM > To: Sanfilippo, Ted > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SORBs > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: > > > Does anyone know of an easier way to remove IP blocks from a > blacklist? > > We received a /16 from ARIN in May and have been trying to get SORB's > > to remove the blacklist association on these addresses. They seem to > > take forever to remove the blacklist association. > > --- 06Jul05 --- > ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain > Description > AS15270 311 59 252 81.0% > AS-PAETEC-NET - PaeTec.net -a division of PaeTecCommunications, Inc. > > Any chance of this deaggregation mess getting cleaned up? > > I've contacted sorbs on your behalf, assuming the /16 concerned is > 63.138.0.0/16. This raises a question that interests me as someone who > had to deal with recently bogon space last time I got ARIN space. > > 63/8 was assigned to ARIN in 1997. Much of it appears to have been > assigned to ARIN members in the late 90s and very early 2000's. How did > Paetec happen to get a /16 from 63/8 in 2005? Was this recently > reclaimed from some defunct company (which could explain the sorbs dul > listing), and Paetec just got lucky? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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