(6bone) Ingress filtering (was: asymmetric routing)

[Joel Baker]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:03:55AM +0100, Tomas Lund wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Joel Baker wrote:
> 
> > Indeed. As I've said in other fora: the going rate for aquiring a
> > swamp /24 on the gray market, the last time I checked, was about
> > $30,000.
> 
> Every tought of just requesting the block you need from {ARIN,RIPE,APNIC}?

Yup. Thought of it, and immediately dismissed it as a waste of time. Why?
Anyone who follows NANOG can give you a summary of what the state of any
sort of micro-allocation via ARIN is: in a word, "non-functional".

Unless and until ARIN hands out /24s ** and major providers listen to those
allocations ** it would be nigh-useless to even bother.

Besides, my personal network can stand to be renumbered every so often. I'm
not trying to run a business with network reachabilty as a core requirement
and I don't run BGP, or even multiple upstream circuits.

However, when I was asked, professionally, to do an architecture model for
a business which needed at most a /27 worth of IPs, but absolutely had to
have 5-6 nines of uptime (financial application provider) across the system
as a whole... well, let's just say that I did the pricing above.

I suppose I could have tried to find out how much it would cost to bribe
ARIN to give me an old swamp /24 that someone returned, but the last time
I checked, they weren't re-assigning any of that space legitimately...

(Obviously from the abive, neither RIPE or APNIC would be of much use to me
either.)
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