Gavin writes:

>...[B]oth Sprint
>and MCI will refuse to make routing table entries for stand alone
>class C networks, so getting an "official" IP address ahead of time
>is no longer useful (and may be impossible).

Both Sprint and MCI will make routing table changes for stand-alone Class
C's allocated before some cutoff date (that was early last year, I
think). We have a class C from HP's block, and our ISP had no trouble
getting it routed. (Well, he had the usual slow response from Sprint. MCI
routed it right away.)

-- Bruce


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