Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:27:54 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, kip@lyris.com, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990602232753.A81106@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990602191911.A15558@clear.co.nz>; from Joe Abley on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:19:11PM %2B1200 References: <19990601130331.A21176@wopr.caltech.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990601131045.13159G-100000@current1.whistle.com> <199906012016.OAA15554@mt.sri.com> <19990602191911.A15558@clear.co.nz>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:19:11PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
> I would take issue with that. All of the regional registries require
> extremely good justification for allocating static IP addresses to
> transient network connections.
Demon (a big ISP in .uk) allocate static IP addresses for *.demon.co.uk).
They have a number of class B's, and I believe that RIPE (European IP
registry) are quite happy with Demon's very efficient use of this space.
> Other times the reason is "so the customer can carry on downloading
> after the line dropped" to which the answer is "maintain your access
> servers properly and this won't happen".
Noise on the line, house mates inadvertently picking up the 'phone, plain
bad luck. . .
> Anyway, this is off-topic. Back to your scheduled programming.
Agreed, Reply-to: points back to me.
N
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