From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 17 01:37:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00285 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yucca.diva.nl (yucca.diva.nl [195.86.38.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00277 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michiel@carmel.diva.nl) Received: from carmel.diva.nl (carmel.diva.nl [195.86.39.25]) by yucca.diva.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01980; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:37:17 +0100 Received: from localhost (michiel@localhost) by carmel.diva.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05405; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:36:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michiel@carmel.diva.nl) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:36:24 +0100 (CET) From: Michiel Boland To: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aliased IPs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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