Re: ARIN?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 11:36 AM 11/7/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> Gary E. Miller wrote:
>
> > My local cable company, Bend Cable, gives out static IP with RoadRunner
> > service.
> >
> > I also know several folks on @Home in Fremont, CA, that have static
> > IP addresses.
>
> Our dedicated accounts get static, as I am sure is the case with most ISPs.
> Non-dedicated can get static only for a fee.  The rate structure starts at
> $8 for a /32 and goes up to about 25% above the ARIN fee for address space.
> The customer must also assert why they need it.
>
> I just wish I could swip the /30's, /31's, and /32's we give out, to ARIN.
> We're putting in more NAT and proxy boxes for businesses and are doing more
> networks smaller than /29 these days.  Yet ARIN still encourages us to use
> a /29 when a /32 would do.  I'll probably swip the /29 containing them as
> just a commentary saying something like "contains /32 assignments" when I
> get my network database going.

What this means is that ARIN is restricting the DNS management. If you have
less than a /29 then you are not allowed to manage your own domain-space
without a handler. That handler is the ISP. To be honest, most of our /29's
are too clueless to handle DNS, in fact most of them are Microsoft-only
LANs whom I don't trust DNS to anyway. I have yet to see a BIND port to any
version of Windows, with resolver library, that worked. Gotta have a Unix
box in the LAN somewhere in order to do that ( and a bunch else besides).
Most of our /29's cann't even spell Unix. 

I take that back, I was just informed that we have some Apple-talk and
Novell LANs as well.

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