69/8...this sucks -- Centralizing filtering..

Mon Mar 10 23:39:19 UTC 2003

> After this 69.0.0.0/8 thing is sorted out I guess
> we can move the "critical resources" over to 202.0.0.0/7
> to track down all the idiots blocking that range (trying
> to decide if I should put a smilie here).
>
> I nominate the arin.net nameservers.

Most people seem to think it would be impractical to put the root name
servers in 69.0.0.0/8

Why not persuade ARIN to put whois.arin.net in there instead?  It
shouldn't take the people with the broken filters *too* long to figure
out why they can't do IP assignment lookups...

Ray

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