[118354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Oct 19 22:12:39 2009
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:10:16 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <D7678B87-4B17-46B5-B3CE-56C421F21A1D@daork.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 03:07:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote:
> On 20/10/2009, at 3:02 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> >plus want the ability to take their address
> >space with them when they change ISPs (because there are too many
> >devices and applications that insist on having hard-coded IP addresses
> >instead of using DNS, and because DNS tends to get cached more often
> >than you'd sometimes like.
>
> That's why we have Unique Local Addresses.
>
but Nathan, they are only statistically unique.
--bill
