For that matter, BBN has TWO class As, a few class Bs, and god only
knows what else. They can't be using all those addresses, can they?
Craig Shrimpton wrote:
>
> Yup. I see me and all my customers.
>
> To better make my point. ARIN is full of it when they bitch about some poor
> ISP wasting IPs on virtual hosts when Boston City Hospital gets a class B?
> Why does a city hospital need a class B?
>
> 140.241.0.0 Boston City Hospital, MA (BCHNET-NET)
>
> -Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday April 28, 2000 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ARIN
>
> >This is a very interesting site for ip allocation overview:
> >
> >http://ipindex.dragonstar.net/
> >
> >Can you find your ip block and your name??
> >
> >Len
> >
> >==========
> >
> >>ARIN is helping the net by being stingy with IP space. The fact of the
> >>matter is there is no shortage of IPs. They need to re-deploy the wasted
> >>class A and B space that's being hoarded by the large corporations.
> >>
> >>To give you an idea how wasteful their policies are consider this. You
> are
> >>a small ISP or corporation that has a requirement for multi-homing but
> ARIN
> >>will not assign you IP space or they assign space that's not globally
> >>routable due to the prefix length. Solution? Bi-directional NAT. Guess
> >>what, bi-directional NAT requires 2 IPs for every host. Now that's
> >>wasteful!
> >>
> >>-Craig
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Malcolm P. Kynoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Date: Thursday April 27, 2000 5:21 PM
> >>Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ARIN
> >>
> >>
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I used to assign a ip per host, but like you I've run into a situation
> with
> >> >Arin as well as not having enough ip's.
> >> >Now I've moved to a complete virtual hosting setup including NAT...
> >> >
> >> >ARIN is pretty strict about IP assignment.
> >> >
> >> >Regards,
> >> > Malcolm Kynoch
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Chambers
> >> >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 4:50 PM
> >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >Subject: [IMail Forum] ARIN
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Has anyone ever had a problem justifying a seperate IP for virtual mail
> >> >hosts to ARIN? I assign a new ip for every host. Makes life easier.
> They
> >> >are giving me grief.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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