[113930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Fri Apr 24 02:14:49 2009
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090422002322.GD4558@hezmatt.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:14:26 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Oh, you lucky, lucky person. We've got a couple of customers at the
> day job
> that constantly come back to us for more IP addresses for bandwidth
> accounting purposes for their colo machine(s). Attempts at
> education are
> like talking to a particularly stupid brick wall.
And not very effective either, because anything they do to solve the
problem another way will likely create the valid need for an external
IP. These days, virtual hosting is all virtual machines, so the IP
justification is just there anyway.
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
