inetnum

On Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:02:02 -0400  Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> Is inetnum obsolete?  If so why are there so many of them?  Sorry if I
> should already know this.
> 
> Another question.  Has any ever considered a means of registering the
> CIDR block allocations independently of whether they are routed or
> aggregated?  This way we might be able to look at the effectiveness of
> prefix allocations delegated by IANA in terms of the number of routes
> they end up generating.  Looks almost as if the inetnum was used for
> that in the RIPE IRR database.

It is. The RIPE-database is both an assignment/allocation database
and a routing registry - you will find actual authoritive *assignement*
in our database for the 193 and 194 blocks.

(that is why the Internic only shows 'please refer to whois.ripe.net'
for these blocks)

Merit only took the RR part of the database, but the allocation part
is by no means obsoleted ;-)

As to the CIDR-block allocations, you might want to look at
ripe-126 and ripe-127, both available from ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/*

Geert Jan




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