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Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)
From: JC Dill <nanog () vo cnchost com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:44:11 -0800
Charles Sprickman wrote:
Seriously though, somewhere there is a popular site that is non-profit in nature that would trade say a month of free access for the hassle of being put into a widely-blocked block.
The suggestion of putting Yahoo or Google on a 69/8 IP led me to this idea:
Google could put their *beta* sites on a 69/8 IP, without causing them (Google) much Internet reachability/connectivity harm, and benefiting the Internet at large considerably.
Set up a page (hopefully linked from www.google.com) that lists all of Google's present beta sites. On this page, inform the user that the beta sites are hosted on "newly allocated IP addresses" and that if the said user can't reach the beta sites, it most likely means that their ISP/Company is improperly filtering these newly valid IP addresses, Instruct these affected users to contact their IPS's support desk or their company's IS department and alert them that they need to update their IP filter set to avoid filtering newly released and valid IPs. Then also link to a site such as <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/> which explains bogon filters, shows how to find the latest lists, and educates the filter-clueless on how to subscribe to appropriate announcement lists to become aware of updates/changes in what IPs can be safely filtered. Google could also explain that they are doing this to help the Internet community fix this problem, and perhaps explain why it is a problem. They would get tons of good press which would help advertise Google and their beta projects.
Froogle is a very kewl site that gets better by the day (thanks guys, I use it all the time!), and I bet it also gets more traffic by the day. This would be a good way for Google to get free publicity for Froogle and other beta sites, and get big Internet community "good guy" points for helping fix the 69/8 bogon filter problem, without outright breaking the highly popular Google websearch site itself.
Is there anyone from Google lurking here on nanog? jc(Googling on: google beta, I discovered that Google itself went beta in February of 1999, just 4 years ago. My, how time flies!)
Current thread:
- Re: 69/8...this sucks, (continued)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Andy Dills (Mar 11)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Randy Bush (Mar 11)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Alec H. Peterson (Mar 11)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks william (Mar 11)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Randy Bush (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Andy Dills (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Peter E. Fry (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Andy Dills (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Charles Sprickman (Mar 11)
- Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) JC Dill (Mar 11)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 11)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) wireworks (Mar 11)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) JC Dill (Mar 11)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 11)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Adam Rothschild (Mar 11)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Greg Maxwell (Mar 12)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) JC Dill (Mar 12)
- gender and nanog Randy Bush (Mar 12)
- route filtering in large networks Andy Dills (Mar 12)
- Re: route filtering in large networks Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 12)