Hey all On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Joe Abley wrote:
Just to confirm, these are to be used for peering between ISPs only? Or are these to be used for numbering customers' routers as well?
Customers as well - the aim is to get one IP range that contains the bulk of the connections to Citylink.
If the former, then these look like good-sized blocks. If the latter, they look a bit small :)
Indeed, but they're not actually subnets, if one ISP doesn't use all it's numbers Citylink can assign some of them to another.
I've almost got the DNS servers going for the in-addr.arpa delegation (ie, the servers are going, I just haven't talked to Rex / APNIC / INTERNIC about changing the servers), in the interim please let me know what numbers you allocate.
Incidentally, the original block suggested by Rex was a /23, wasn't it? In the more modern RIPE db notation, that's
202.7.0.0 - 202.7.1.255
Urrgh, my mistake, you're quite correct. I'll do another allocation shortly.
That gives plenty of room for growth without impinging on those "reserved" bits. Also if everybody uses 255.255.254.0 as a subnet mask from the word go, it might save some hassle/confusion in the future?
The reservation was for each ISP to grow into, they weren't being reserved for any other purpose. A /23 makes me much happier - with the speed with which Citylink is growing, 253 connections isn't that far away... Cheers Si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog