[1851] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Static/Dynamic Debate Was: Need help to connect to ISP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Feb 5 08:52:26 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: agulbra@troll.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 08:51:22 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: erich@basenet.com, ecarp@netcom.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <29559.1046.823380666@pentagram.troll.no> from "Arnt Gulbrandsen" at Feb 3, 96 09:51:06 pm
> People will invent names for their box if they don't have a real one.
> Someone, I've no idea who but he dials in to a terminal server here in
> town, has named his box paal.troll.no. How do I know? He has sent
> mail from his box, and I'm postmaster for troll.no.
So use a pop3 daemon that allows people to have virtual hostnames on it. This
solves the problem nicely.
>
> What I'm trying to say is, the internet's design is based in globally
> unique IP addresses, and the design shouldn't be messed with unless
> it's broken.
It is broken. Someone didnt include enough addresses. Its actually getting
very hard to get large blocks of addresses for static SLIP now. RIPE tend to
ask pointed questions about the need for them to be static. (RIPE are the
european internic for those wondering - faster, more polite and more
expensive ;)).
