[NTLUG:Discuss] Verizon Fiber

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:02:41AM -0600, David Simmons wrote:
> 
> Sure..I can see the penny-pinching...but why then allocate the whole /29
> to my name in Arin.net?  Hence my 'weird - non-standard' setup statement,
> run by MSCE's...grin
> 
So I have not worked at verizon.net in many many years now (I left when
they merged from gte.net to verizon.net), the people running the network
there are the same ones from when I used to be there, at least on the
Dallas side, and are generally top notch.  Here is the deal though.  It is
much easier for them to manage things in class C blocks.  What you really
have is a block of IPs on a class C block.  Arin is a different beast, and
really requires everything be in clean subnets, so they file you with Arin
as a /29.  What this really does is allow you to run your own reverse DNS
for those IPs which are assigned to you, and takes the burden off of
verizon.net. 
Sure it looks non standard, but look at the purpose of arin, and it makes
sense that things are filed with them to meet their requirements for
sanity, but handled by the ISP in they way which requires the least amount
of stress/work... I am sure it is also a bit easier to explain to their
call center folks who don't understand networking that "All default
gateways should be .1" Class C is easier for the uninitiated to grok.

Justin