Changing parent provider

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Jun 21 14:52:45 UTC 1999


In article <900E7814F4BCD111B5F600600877FCD166A328 at mail.fairplay.co.uk>,
Matthew Thompson  <matthewt at fairplay.co.uk> wrote:
>Do you not own the rights to your IP addresses yourself? If you have a
>256 block of contiguous IP addresses (or more) then it might be easier
>to get the new ISP to take over these addresses.

Most ISPs do not let you take your IP addresses with you.  IP addresses are
assigned hierarchically -- ISPs get large blocks from regional registries,
and dole out addresses within the blocks to their customers.

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