ARIN?

Jeff Mcadams jeffm at iglou.com
Wed Nov 11 01:01:45 UTC 1998


Thus spake John Fraizer
>At 06:58 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
>>Here I disagree.  As I (and others have pointed out) there are people
>>with /32's that have just as much administrative control over their IP
>>"space" as someone with a /25 might have.  I have *several* customers,
>>and we're not all that big of an ISP, that have *full* administrative
>>control over their IP space with the one exception of reverse lookups.

>I was quoting someone else and merely replaced the word "network" with
>"address_allocation."

OK, but I still disagree, even with the revised statement.  :)

>Why don't they have reverse lookups?  in-addr.arpa records control is the
>only reason I care about having address space under my maintainer ID to
>start with.

Mostly because reverse lookups for blocks longer than /24's is still a
hassle...it can be done, but is still a hassle...oh...and some things
still break with CNAME -> PTR (a recent discussion on BUGTRAQ
illuminates one)
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