2011/6/20 Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>:
In a message written on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:01:24AM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
I would use this answer in reply to the customer, and ask them to (specifically) justify their request for the discontiguous blocks.
That's like asking them to state the obvious...
Or, just don't offer it. Make them fit in one block, giving them 3 months to renumber into a single, larger block if necessary.
Well, forcing a periodic renumbering whenever adress gets freed and there's a potential agregation is a good thing. It should be stated in service agreements, IMHO.
It sends a strong message you're willing to give them all the space they need, but won't help them evade RBL's.
Unless many contiguous blocks are assigned as different objects : a RBL must NOT presume of one end-user's inetnum unless it has been cathed doing nasty things AND didn't comply to abuse@ requests. But most RBL managers are shitheads anyway, so help them evade, that'll be one more proof of spamhaus &co. uselessness and negative impact on the Internet's best practices. -- Jérôme Nicolle