ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

Sun May 17 18:52:50 UTC 1998

IMHO every dialup customer, the vast majority of which use Windows 95,
should have their machines set up to get the DNS servers, routing info,
etc. from the terminal server they dial in to.  Change the DNS servers in
the PRI box and you're done.  Nobody notices except people with Un*x boxes
or Trumpet Winsock. I'm not sure if Mac boxes can do this, but Mac users
represent about 5% of our dialup base, so it's not a terribly huge
problem.  Seems a little less disaster prone than every provider on the
net having a nameserver on the same IP in 1918 space, especially those
that don't realize that you're not supposed to announce it and those that
don't filter it...

	-Blake

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Blake Willis           					703-448-4470x483
Network Engineer, New Customers				blakew at cais.net
CAIS Internet, a CGX Communications Company
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael K. Smith wrote:
> 
> > Let's not forget to mention the 10,000 dialup customers who have to 
> > change their DNS numbers.  We have sent snail-mail and e-mail over and 
> > over again, yet only about 1/3 of that 10k have actually made the change 
> > away from the old numbers.  How many of those customers do you think 
> > we'll lose when we officially turn off the old ip's?
> 
> IMHO every dialup customer from every ISP in the world should use
> 192.168.254.1 for their DNS address and this number should be hard coded
> as the default in all client software. Then this problem would go away.