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RE: multi-homing fixes
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:43:42 -0700
By the way, my favorite provider insanity (circa 1998) went like this: Provider: We need 80% of your IPs to be pingable by next week or we're going to have to take some of your IPs away. Customer: This is coming out of nowhere. That requirement isn't in our contract. P: Your contract says that you have to follow our IP allocation policies and if you don't we can take them back. So, our new policy is that 80% of your IPs have to be pingable. C: Well that's a problem because about 40% of my IPs have been allocated to customers who have asked me to block incoming pings, which I do. P: Well, I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. We need the IPs badly and ARIN won't allocate us any more right now. So we need you to prove usage or we'll take them back. C: I have an idea. If you can tell me what IP or small block of IPs you'll be pinging from, I'll talk to the affected customers about making an exception for your ping boxes. P: I'm sorry, I can't tell you that information. C: Why not? P: If you knew where we'd be pinging from, you could block our pinger. Then we'd have no idea what IPs you were using. Most likely, this particular provider had done something majorly wrong for their allocations to be refused. But it's their customers that suffer. This alone is sufficient reason to multihome. It lets you keep your hair. DS
Current thread:
- Re: multi-homing fixes, (continued)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Mark Radabaugh (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixes John Fraizer (Aug 28)
- RE: multi-homing fixes Mark Radabaugh - Amplex (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 24)
- RE: multi-homing fixes Howard C. Berkowitz (Aug 24)
- RE: multi-homing fixes Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 29)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Clayton Fiske (Aug 29)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 29)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Henry Yen (Aug 24)
- RE: multi-homing fixes David Schwartz (Aug 24)
- RE: multi-homing fixes David Schwartz (Aug 24)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Majdi S. Abbas (Aug 24)
- Re: multi-homing fixes Vijay Gill (Aug 24)
- RE: multi-homing fixes jmalcolm (Aug 24)
- RE: multi-homing fixes Alex Bligh (Aug 24)