On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote: I guess I now begin to understand why the IETF has to push ASNs to 32 bits. It's all one big technical joke. -Hank
Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
Appears to be Peter Lothberg, I guess it is legit..
Ha!Knowing him, more likely to be a joke than legit!
How about next time we do a quick lookup, and maybe try and contact the listed contact before wasting everyones time?
Maybe that's good advice in general, but this was a nice humorous anecdote that brought back fond memories....I remember his high bandwidth link -- to the bathroom (T3? OC3?).
There's an old tradition of interesting names for our networks, long lost in the commercialization of the Internet.Mine were fairly prosaic dream.net (192.138.173.0) and dreamer.net (192.138.226.0) -- names stolen years ago by domain hijackers (I still announce the address blocks from time to time).Of course, there were those that castigated me for having a couple of "valuable" class C's -- in my living room....
-- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32