On 6 Jan 2005, at 17:43, Simon Blake wrote:
The current address block used on the WIX (202.7.0.0/23) was pulled out of Rex Croft's magic bag of spare addresses in July 1998, according to the list archives, so it was before then.
As far as I recall, only Clear (as they were then, independant of Telstra) used the 10.96 allocations in anger.
Ah ha, good. I was nominally in charge of the IP network at that time, but things in Wellington had a habit of going their own way without the annoying Auckland people being encumbered with the fiddly details. Now that you mention it, I have vague nightmare-flavoured memories of a cisco 1600 with a frame drop colocated at some customer site next to a length of citylink cable, with static routes to network 10 addresses. I also vaguely recall migrating customers off that nightmare router onto the 7507s after we installed them in Lambton Quay. [Oh, I think I still owe Dean Pemberton a beer for loaning us a power cable during that install that we never gave back.] The nightmare 1600 frame router was never used for peering, though. That was all customer access.
This may be a timely point to note, for those that are students of these things, that the WIX block is no longer "owned" by Dunedin City Council:
Yaay for that. Nicely done. Joe