[123437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hoyle)
Mon Mar 8 12:06:49 2010
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:06:20 +0000
From: Tony Hoyle <tony@hoyle.me.uk>
To: "nanog@nanog.org >> nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1003081142010.18309@castor.opentrend.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On 08/03/2010 16:52, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Shon Elliott wrote:
>
>> I would love to move to IPv6. However, the IPv6 addressing, I have to
>> say, is really tough to remember and understand for most people. Where
>
> Hi Shon. But we have a system in place which allows non-technical
> people to ignore IP addresses entirely.
>
> Up to this point the ease of remembering IPv4 addresses has allowed
> their use to leak out in to the user community. It is quite common
> today for users to ssh to servers by IP address in many organisations.
> I consider this an historical accident.
>
It's also not that difficult to remember.. your prefix never changes so
that's the first 48-64 bits taken care of. The rest you can make human
readable if you want - I know people that use <prefix>::53 for their
nameserver, <prefix>::80 for their webserver, etc.
It's all about how you use it. Personally I use DNS.. that's what it's for.
Tony
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