To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS

Christopher A. Woodfield rekoil at semihuman.com
Mon May 14 20:40:35 UTC 2001


s/larger/smaller, you mean?

I actually haven't SWIPped a /30 myself - I was referring to John Murphy's 
statement implying that he has successfully. I have SWIPped /29's, 
however.

-C

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:36:11PM -0400, Hunter Pine wrote:
> ARIN returns my /30's and says I can't do netblocks larger than /29 so I
> stopped doing /30's. Are you paying them something on the side or just not
> reading all the replies from them? :)
> 
> Hunter Pine
> Vice President, Network Operations
> hunter at compuhelp.com
> CompuHelp Technologies
> 11 Lispenard Street
> New York, NY 10013
> 212-995-2955 x21
> http://www.compuhelp.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil at semihuman.com>
> To: "John Murphy" <nanog at mail.murfnet.com>
> Cc: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer at mhsc.com>; <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS
> 
> 
> >
> > Yes, ARIN won't _prevent_ you from SWIPping /29s and /30s, but ARIN
> _requires_
> > you to SWIP any suballocation larger than a /28, and won't issue
> > additional blocks to you if your current blocks aren't properly SWIPped.
> >
> > -C
> >
> > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:07:26PM -0500, John Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm sorry Roeland, but your statement about SWIP'ing anything less than
> a
> > > /24 is just inaccurate.  We SWIP /29s and /30s daily, for both our Frame
> > > and our DSL customers.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------------Original Message-----------------------
> > > From:  Roeland Meyer
> > > To:  nanog at nanog.org
> > > Date:  5/13/01  4:21 PM
> > > Subject:  RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR
> CUSTOMERS
> > >
> > >
> > > I've had similar problem at SpeakEasy. They still don't have a
> reverse-DNS
> > > clue.
> > >
> > > http://www.mhsc.com/recovery.htm
> > >
> > > None of the DSL ISPs can do larger than /27 anymore, even when they're
> > > ILECs. Anything less than a /24 can't be SWIP'd and if you don't control
> > > your in-addr.arpa entries you don't control your domain and have no
> > > security.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: John Palmer (NANOG Acct) [mailto:nanog at adns.net]
> > > > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 1:40 PM
> > >
> > > > <FLAME ON>
> > >
> > > > PSINet dumped all of their DSL customers onto CAIS. Covad is
> > > > the backhaul
> > > > provider for them both. Need I say more?
> > > >
> > > > Bottom line, I dont know how many thousands of people were
> > > > without service
> > > > for more than a day because the whole transfer was botched.
> > > >
> > > > We have a situation where we had a DSL connection from PSI
> > > > and were using
> > > > our own  IP addresses. Problem is that no one changed the
> > > > routing tables and the packets dead-ended at PSI.
> > > >
> > > > Getting CAIS to fix this problem has been a nightmare. At
> > > > first, PSI didnt
> > > > stop announcing the routes and now that they have, it seems that
> > > > CAIS will not announce the routes till Monday becuase "no one
> > > > at our NOC
> > > > knows how to do this and the one guy (ONE GUY IN THE WHOLE
> > > > COMPANY - AND THEY ARE A NATIONWIDE PROVIDER????) who knows
> > > > how doesn't work
> > > > weekends."
> > >
> > > > <flame off - sorry to the list for being so loud>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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