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) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456