Hi Paul

I will email you privately to address your concerns.

Regards
Marla Azinger
Supervisor Network ENG
IP Address Management



-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Henson
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:27 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: So Cal Verizon Business FIOS to Frontier cutover

So the transition from Verizon to Frontier is coming up, and I recently got a 
notice from Verizon pointing me to the following website:

http://meetfrontier.com/

Evidently one of the things Verizon did not sell to Frontier is their IP 
address space, as it seems customers with static IP addresses are going to have 
to change their allocations :(. I have five statics, and while it is not the 
end of the world, it will certainly be annoying to have to reconfigure not only 
my equipment but also update the configurations of my clients that access it 
and the other service providers I access who restrict based on it <sigh>. I was 
hoping to get some simple additional information regarding this migration, such 
as:

* How far in advance of the cutover will we be notified?
* How far in advance of the cutover will we be supplied with the new static IP 
addresses?
* How big will the cutover window be, and will it be attended or unattended?
* How will reverse DNS resolution be handled?

So I called the phone number on the website that was provided for questions or 
additional information. I'm not quite sure why they provided it, as the person 
who answered it had absolutely no information to provide other than that that 
was already on the website, and said they were unable to direct me to anyone 
who could provide any further information; I guess it was for people who needed 
the website read to them?

Any chance there is a Frontier engineer on the list who might be able to 
provide this information, anonymously if necessary :)? Or someone who has gone 
through a Verizon to Frontier FIOS static IP address transition in another 
location who might describe their experience with the assumption it will be 
similar in California?

As far as reverse DNS, the only thing I can seem to find is this:

http://hostmaster.frontier.com/reverse.html

Which talks about "Business Class DSL and Dedicated Internet" customers, not 
sure if it applies to FIOS? What I'd really like is to get my PTR entries 
delegated to me via CNAMEs so I could control the TTLs and update them whenever 
I wanted to without having to hassle the provider (one of my colleagues has 
this arrangement with charter business cable), Verizon was never willing to do 
that.

On another note, does anybody have any idea regarding Frontier's position on 
rolling out IPv6 for business FIOS :)? Hopefully they won't be quite as archaic 
and stuck in the mud as Verizon has been on that topic :(.

Thanks much for any info.



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