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Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:17:12 +1100
In message <182E6E76-F12A-41D9-800A-E5E40F3C3B7D () direwolf com>, John Orthoefer writes:
Genuity/GTEI/Planet/BBN owned 4/8. Brett went looking for an IP that = was simple to remember, I think 4.4.4.4 was in use by neteng already. = But it was picked to be easy to remember, I think jhawk had put a hold = on the 4.2.2.0/24 block, we got/grabbed 3 address 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and = 4.2.2.3 so people had 3 address to go to. At the time people had = issues with just using a single resolver. We also had issues with both = users and registers since clearly they aren't geographically diverse, = trying to explain routing tricks to people KNOW all IPs come in and are = routed as Class A/B/C blocks is hard.
I don't care what internal routing tricks are used, they are still under the *one* external route and as such subject to single points of failure and as such don't have enough independence. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
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