News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Thu Sep 18 00:19:11 UTC 2003

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Justin Shore wrote:
 > Even MACs aren't entirely unique.  Some places used to assign MAC
 > addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be
 > reconfigured for the assigned MAC.  An admin was freely able to assign a
 > MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution.  I
 > personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone
 > did.

Why not IPv6 addresses?  Some designated prefix?  There are enough addresses
in 2^128 that we can all be happy...