Re: ARIN?

[Jeff Mcadams <jeffm () iglou com>]

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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