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The 69/8 Networking Problem

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the modular-arithmetic dept.

jaredmauch writes "A number of networking providers who receive address space from ARIN have been having problems with their recent IP space allocations. This is a result of outdated filters that applied a few years ago during the boom time of the net, but have not been updated to reflect the current state of the network. Here is a paper that documents some of the problems this filtering is causing providers."

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  1. Re:Not surprising by jmt9581 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Curse slashdot for making me wonder "I Am Not A What?" as I skimmed over this comment . . .

    While IANAL (linguist, not lawyer :) the namespace for acronyms is really becoming overcrowded. :)

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  2. Re:Not surprising by hardcode · · Score: 5, Funny

    IANAIANA

    I am not an internet assigned numbers authority

    hc