Two renumbering questions

Thu Apr 30 02:40:44 UTC 1998

> > 1.  I have a /24 SWIPed to me, 205.238.207.0.  The ARIN listing doesn't say
> > it's non-portable, so can I take it with me?  And if I do, how likely is it
> > that the new ISP's announcement will get installed in backbone routers
> > rather than filtered for being too long?  It's right in the middle of the old
> > upstream's block 205.238.192/18. 
> 
> If you *own* the block, you can do anything you want with it. 

Well, there's the question -- I have no idea who owns it.  Look it up in 
ARIN, it says it's mine, but with contact info from epix, the old upstream. 
Again, though, even if I own it, if the announcements don't make it into the
backbone it's not very useful, and I gather that some backbones now filter at
/19 except for the swamp. 

> Sure, a host modify (http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/itts/host) will set you
> up.  If you can, I'd try to overlap service so when things fubar, you can
> always fallback to pieces-parts 'till you can figure things out :)

My ISP (the local independent telco who is quite sharp) is doing what 
they can but epix is less than helpful.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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