Where to buy Internet IP addresses

Tue May 5 20:35:21 UTC 2009

Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:28:25 -0400, Charles Wyble 
> <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:
>> Utility companies utilize Zigbee pretty extensively. So that's 
>> millions and millions of addresses right there.
> 
> But does the entire planet need to talk to those critters?  No.  Nor 
> should they even be able to.

Really.... we don't have enough debates going on in this thread?
> 
> Those little gadgets can very happily live within a link-local only 
> network, or isolated private network.

Exactly. Behind the utilities (closely monitored and highly restrictive) 
firewall. Most likely behind multiple firewalls. (border fw, internal 
operations fw, monitoring network firewall). No reason they shouldn't 
have a fully routeable address.

> 
> I know the subject of "nat" in IPv6 will have people chasing me with 
> pitchforks, but there are a lot of things in the world that don't need 
> to be accessable by the entire world and should be (must be) protected 
> from even accidentally being exposed to the Evil Internet(tm).  Everyone 
> will chime in with "firewall them", but the risk exists as long as they 
> have global addresses.  Having to break into a machine in order to get 
> at the internal network (ala today's NAT) makes the network much safer 
> -- not "safe", but safer than directly naked on the internet.

This is no different then having machines with a public IP on the net 
today. A firewall is such a small part of an overall security architecture.

Don't troll.