Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 12:02:50 -0600 From: Ben Black <black@squid.gage.com> To: "Jesse" <way7ruin@bah2.themall.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUBNET? Message-ID: <9612181753.AA06929@squid.gage.com> In-Reply-To: <199612181723.JAA07910@bah2.themall.net> References: <199612181723.JAA07910@bah2.themall.net>
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>I though that they woulod assign us a subnet, and map it through >directly to use. That way, say, our web server, would have a URL like >http://www.homestudy.edu, not http://www.homestudy.nasa.gov like they >apparently are thinking. Wouldn;t we go through the InterNIC for our >addresses? 1) traceroutes would show your server as being inside the nasa network. 2) you would NOT get your network from InterNIC. you would either get a network directly from NASA or from whoever they are using for their net connection. the major cause of all the routing table explosions is having to route individual class c networks. they are now allocated to providers in blocks and the providers give them to customers. b3n
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