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Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin () rcn com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:14:11 -0400 (EDT)
In the referenced message, Hunter Pine said:
Larger - ARIN refers to netblocks by subnet mask bit length. So a /30 is larger than a /29. It took me a while to figure this out myself while reading their docs. I guess whenever referring to ARIN, I use the backwards method when comparing netblocks to keep myself at least partially sane. :)
I have most commonly seen networks referred to in terms of size (larger/smaller), and prefixes in terms of length (longer/shorter). Therefore, a larger network has a shorter prefix-length, and a smaller network has a longer prefix-length. IIRC, ARIN makes all references as to prefix-length in this manner.
Current thread:
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS, (continued)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (May 13)
- RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Roeland Meyer (May 13)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Adam McKenna (May 13)
- Re: reverse mapping, was WAKEUPANDTAKECARE bmanning (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Adam McKenna (May 13)
- RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS John Murphy (May 13)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Christopher A. Woodfield (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Hunter Pine (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Christopher A. Woodfield (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Hunter Pine (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Alex Rubenstein (May 15)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Stephen Griffin (May 17)
- Re: Swipping /29's /30's and singles.. mike harrison (May 15)
- Re: Swipping /29's /30's and singles.. Hunter Pine (May 15)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Christopher A. Woodfield (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Adam McKenna (May 14)
- RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS John Fraizer (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Christopher A. Woodfield (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Adam McKenna (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Christopher A. Woodfield (May 14)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Adam McKenna (May 15)