Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:36:24 +0100 (CET) From: Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aliased IPs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812171028030.5340-100000@carmel.diva.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216172032.21256Y-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, N wrote: > > I definitely *won't* have any problems when I deplete my assigned IP space > > and go to RIPE (living in Europe) to request more. You *will* have > > trouble getting new space if you've assigned all of your space to web > > hosts to cater for a very, very tiny minority of people who can be easily > > taken care of just as easily and almost as transparent in other ways. > > Not true. ARIN, on this side of the pond, recognizes web sites as > valid uses of IP space. Too many services common to web sites > (ftp, RealAudio/Video, LivePicture ...) require unique IPs for > virtual hosts. This argument is not entirely correct. Just because someone needs a unique number to host realaudio/whatever does not mean that he/she also needs a unique number for his/her web site. I would be *very* surprised (not to mention appalled :) if the practice of handing out IP addresses *just* for virtual HTTP servers is actually condoned by ARIN. -- Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl> Digital Valley Internet Professionals Duivendaal 4, Wageningen, The Netherlands Phone: +31 317 465555, Fax: +31 317 460276 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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