Re: 69/8...this sucks -- Centralizing filtering..

["Stephen Sprunk" <stephen () sprunk org>]

Thus spake "Ray Bellis" <rpb () community net uk>
> Most people seem to think it would be impractical to put the root name
> servers in 69.0.0.0/8
>
> Why not persuade ARIN to put whois.arin.net in there instead?  It
> shouldn't take the people with the broken filters *too* long to figure
> out why they can't do IP assignment lookups...

I'd bet most of the people with broken filters have never heard of ARIN and
still think "the InterNIC" assigns addresses.  We're talking about people
with no network staff; directing technical solutions at the people oblivious
to technology is difficult stuff.

S

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