[134411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Jan 5 21:44:41 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: Nanog Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:42:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4D252B1F.8030506@kenweb.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote:
> At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which hav=
e these IPs deeply embedded in their configs.
They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS n=
ames. Time to bite the bullet and get this fixed prior to their eventual f=
orced migration to IPv6.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
-- Alan Kay
