From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 3 11:12:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE7014CC4; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA85685; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:27:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:27:54 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Joe Abley Cc: Nate Williams , Julian Elischer , Matthew Hunt , kip@lyris.com, Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990602232753.A81106@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Reply-To: nik@freebsd.org References: <19990601130331.A21176@wopr.caltech.edu> <199906012016.OAA15554@mt.sri.com> <19990602191911.A15558@clear.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990602191911.A15558@clear.co.nz>; from Joe Abley on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:19:11PM +1200 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message