In message <[email protected]>, John Orthoefer writes: > Genuity/GTEI/Planet/BBN owned 4/8. Brett went looking for an IP that = > was simple to remember, I think 4.4.4.4 was in use by neteng already. = > But it was picked to be easy to remember, I think jhawk had put a hold = > on the 4.2.2.0/24 block, we got/grabbed 3 address 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and = > 4.2.2.3 so people had 3 address to go to. At the time people had = > issues with just using a single resolver. We also had issues with both = > users and registers since clearly they aren't geographically diverse, = > trying to explain routing tricks to people KNOW all IPs come in and are = > routed as Class A/B/C blocks is hard.
I don't care what internal routing tricks are used, they are still under the *one* external route and as such subject to single points of failure and as such don't have enough independence. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected]
