InterNIC - We put the "I" in incompetent.

Michael Dillon michael at memra.com
Sun Mar 14 19:54:04 UTC 1999


On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, I Am Not An Isp wrote:

> >>    NS1.ENTERZONE.NET            209.41.244.5
> >>    NS2.ENTERZONE.NET            209.41.244.6
> >
> >Hmm... same subnet...
> 
> Michael, you should know better than that.  I do not see a subnet mask on
> these IP addresses.  There is nothing stopping a Network Operator from
> making these /32s and putting them on different networks.

Nothing except community consensus that it is a *BAD* thing to pollute the
global routing table with lots of long prefixes.

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