renumbering and roaming
Blake Willis
blakew at cais.net
Mon May 18 16:53:46 UTC 1998
Would it be terribly unreasonable to suggest assigning a reserved /24
explicitly for internal ISP services such as those listed below, and write
up some sort of rfc for the whole ordeal, so that there are no conflicts
with 1918 space?
-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 Mon, 18 May 1998, Ben Buxton wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael Dillon turned on his computer and typed:
> > > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael K. Smith:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > if all ISPs agreed to use these addresses... say
> > - TWO resolvers, e.g. 192.168.254,1 and 192.168.253.1
> > - two mail relays, e.g. 192.168.254.5 and 192.168.253.5
> > - two news servers, e.g. ---254.9 and 253.9
> > - two ntp time servers
> > - etc etc
>
> Of course, if a customer has a LAN out the back of the same machine
> they're connecting from, and it's using these addresses (which
> they are entitled to use), then it'll cause immense headaches..
>
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