[Novalug] looking for ipv4 addresses

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Wed Nov 7 08:34:31 EST 2012


Jon,

What did you pay for your /24 when you bought it?

Jay

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 07:26:30PM -0500, Dave K wrote:
>> Hi Jon:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 06:55:34PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 06:33:48PM -0500, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>> > > I could use such a thing myself -- Verizon charges a fortune for theirs.
>> > >
>> >
>> > What ISP would you get to feed to those addresses.  I had the block for
>> > over 20 years and could not get anyone to service them.
>>
>> For whipper-snappers like myself, owing even a single IP address would
>> be a pipe dream.  I went bananas with joy 12 years ago when Cavalier
>> assigned me a static IP address.  That was simply an ISP assigning me an
>> address, not me having owned the address beforehand.
>>
>> I would highly encourage you to give a talk about the life cycle of your
>> ip block ownership.
>
> It would be a very short talk.  Essentially I had a very private
> set of addresses I could use on my LAN.
>
> I never did get an ISP to advertise my addresses and feed them to me.
> Came close two times.  Some oldtimers may remember NSF used to fund
> (maybe still does) 5 or 6 super computing centers.  One was at Princeton,
> just a few miles from me, the John von Neuman Center (JVNC).  NSF needed
> to reduce funding an dropped support for JVNC, in part, because it ran
> CDC hardware while the others ran Cray equipment.
>
> The principals at JVNC decided not to waste their great network
> connections and started an ISP called JVNC.net.  I was a client of
> JVNC.net using a 24x7 phone connection at 19.2 kilobaud.  They were
> considering my request to feed my block when they were bought by
> a larger ISP.  That ended that.
>
> Later a ISP called MegaPath agreed to support my block using DSL.
> They co-located their equipment with Bell Atlantic, now Verizon.
> When they started provisioning my line it was determined I was
> about 300 yards too far from the central office so DSL was out.
>
> So for about 20 years my primary machine at jgcomp.com has been
> assigned 205.166.177.11.  But no one could ping it unless they
> were inside my LAN.  Instead I've paid a domain name service to
> alias jgcomp.com to my Comcast or Verizon address.
>
> jl
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