On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Joe Abley said:
Does anybody happen to remember when peering between ISPs in Wellington using network 10 addresses started happening?
I'm not sure it ever did start happening. Netlink (or was it Actrix?) had a chunk of public number space that they used as a proto exchange over Citylink, it was certainly used to peer Netlink to Actrix, and may have had other ISP's on it as well. This was prior to the allocation by RexNIC.
I remember Craig Anderson circulating a draft document reserving chunks of 10/8 for people, and some talk about static ARP, but I don't remember when it was.
There was a meeting at WCC with a bunch of ISP's attending that spawned that draft, I'm thinking May 1998 - certainly before we physically moved out of WCC, which was Nov 1998. There was a subsequent consensus that doing peering with private numbers wasn't a great plan, which is when we went to Rex.
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. 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: simon(a)zoff:~$ whois 202.7.0.0 % [whois.apnic.net node-1] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 202.7.0.0 - 202.7.1.255 netname: CITYLINK descr: Citylink descr: PO Box 9328 descr: Wellington country: NZ admin-c: CRA1-AP tech-c: CRA1-AP mnt-routes: MAINT-NZ-CITYLINK mnt-by: APNIC-HM status: ASSIGNED PORTABLE Moves are afoot to normalise the APE block as well, that should be done in the next month or so.
If I was to document a start date for the WIX (e.g. "first BGP session between ISPs was set up", or maybe "first packet was exchanged between citylink/CNHL customers", or something) what would it be?
Andy and Sid may be able to better express an opinion as to the Netlink-Actrix peering, Rex Lovelock would be the man who set up the original ClearNet link - I'll CC him in, he may recall when they added those numbers to the Clear router on Citylink (which was connected in Jan 1998, according to our records). Cheers Si