ARIN Proposal

[Karl Denninger]

>
> >> 2)      Web servers.  Folks, try forcing all the DNS caches on the net to
> >>         flush instantly.  Can't be done.  You WILL screw customers if you
> >>         renumber their servers.  The depth of the "screwing" is not under
> >>         your control, and will CERTAINLY by more than a full business day.
> >>         You WILL lose customers over that event.
> > Instantly is a problem. However if the changes are planned you can adjust
> > the expire time of DNS downwards in steps so that there are only very
> > short term caches to be flushed at the switchover point.
>
> And, for a seamless transition, use an A RRset as opposed to a single A.

Baloney.  If the first connection attempt returns a RESET/REFUSED or worse,
HANGS, the customer will click elsewhere.  They will NOT wait for the
connection to time out, and the browsers out there will NOT try multiple
opens at once.

There is *NO* seamless transition possible Randy.  Show me ONE browser which
works the way you dream about here.  It doesn't exist.

> >> You WILL lose a BOATLOAD of YOUR customers if you get boxed like this.  The
> >> only option you have left as an ISP is to sue the people who are putting
> >> you in the box.
>
> Then you just stick the subpoena in the router and everything will be just
> fine.  I can recommend a couple other places to stick the subpoenas.
>
> The number of Internet business that have sued into profitability is rather
> small.  The number which have clued themselves to profitability is somewhat
> larger.
>
> randy

In other words, that something restrains trade and is therefore illegal in
the US, and there ARE other viable options (like assigning any bona-fide ISP
who asks a /19, which IS routeable), we should just screw people instead?

Randy, you're in Dreamland.

Of course, you ALSO have your own /16 in the historical Class "B" space,
which is not subject to recall or trouble of this sort.

Why don't you try living with your own lies before you claim that it is
possible to do without SERIOUS disruption to your operations?

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