20402 routing entries

Thu Apr 21 15:33:56 UTC 1994

You mean assert network numbers like Appletalk allows for?!?

On Fri, 15 Apr 1994, Walt Haas wrote:

> However, if we could develop a technology which could make renumbering
> of a network (ie. a company, university or similar-sized unit) fast and
> efficient, this premise would break down and it would no longer be unreasonable
> to consider renumbering the organization when switching providers.
> 
> Suppose, for example that Domain Names were sacred but a daemon could
> somehow touch every machine in a certain domain simultaneously and give
> it a new number, while simultaneously updating the routing tables that
> pointed into that domain?
> 
> No, I don't have an RFC written, sorry, it's just an idea.

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