hole punching reality check

Thu Oct 17 05:42:45 UTC 1996

  P is on crack;  send them back to school. Tell them to 'webster
  specific'.

  -alan

> 
> Provider P allocates a block of address space A to customer, I an ISP.
> 
> I allocates a /24, call it B, out of that block to one of their customers, C.
> 
> C later leaves ISP I and gets a wire directly from provider P.
> 
> I wishes to give C time to renumber.
> 
> I would expect the world to see the following announcements.
> 
> A - I announcing a shorter prefix, A
> B - P announcing a more specific for the /24 allocated to C
> 
> Is this not what we all expect?
> 
> Why I ask is we have provider P telling I that they should stop announcing A
> and instead announce a bunch of prefixes around the /24.
> 
> randy
> 

-- 
Alan Hannan
Not Employed Networking, Ltd.
email: alan at mindvision.com.
phone: 402/488-0238