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

[jlewis () lewis org]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ray Bellis wrote:

> 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...

The vast majority of broken networks won't care/notice.  A few will assume
ARIN's whois server is broken.  How often do people on forgotten networks
in China and Albania use ARIN's whois server?

Take away the western Internet (all of gtld-servers.net) and they will 
notice the problem.