ISPs that provide RFC1918 space should also provide recursive DNS services that would stop all RFC1918 in-addrs before hitting root-servers and guidance to their users so they do the same on their servers if they don't forward requests to the ISP recursive resolver. Rubens ----- Original Message ----- From: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com> To: "'Christopher J. Wolff'" <chris@bblabs.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:45 PM Subject: RE: NAT for an ISP | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | My first hop beyond my border for my home connection is a 10-net | address. Provider is RoadRunner. So, yes, ISP's are using RFC1918 | space for access networks, which probably also has some bearing on | the recent thread regarding the frequency of attempted lookups of | RFC1918 in-addrs. | | - -- | William S. Duncanson caesar@starkreality.com | The driving force behind the NC is the belief that the companies who | brought us things like Unix, relational databases, and Windows can | make an appliance that is inexpensive and easy to use if they choose | to do that. | - -- Scott Adams | | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On | > Behalf Of Christopher J. Wolff | > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 14:52 | > To: nanog@merit.edu | > Subject: NAT for an ISP | > | > | > | > Hello, | > | > I would like to know if any service providers have built their | > access networks out using private IP space. It certainly would | > benefit the global IP pool but it may adversely affect users with | > special | > applications. At any rate, it sounds like good fodder for a | > debate. | > | > Regards, | > Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO | > Broadband Laboratories, Inc. | > http://www.bblabs.com | > | > | > | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- | Version: PGP 7.0.4 | | iQA/AwUBPt5aTfNxJ1tT9oUNEQLSuwCfRl2sFrhG2pcIHBzdFhx4HIGRtW4AnicE | s3gaDBd3H5XdBtSW6lW3otU+ | =qa/s | -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |