[136762] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri Feb 4 17:52:13 2011
To: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:57:12 -0000."
<CLGJgQW4YHTNFAWL@perry.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:51:50 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <CLGJgQW4YHTNFAWL@perry.co.uk>, Roland Perry writes:
> But NAT does have the useful (I think) side effect that I don't have to
> renumber my network when I change upstream providers - whether that's
> once every five years like I just did with my ADSL, or once every time
> the new ADSL hiccups[1] now that I have a CPE with 3G failover.
>
> [1] Seems to be about weekly, so far.
> --
> Roland Perry
And that can be pretty much automated these days. Windows boxes
if you let them will just register their new addresses in the DNS.
MacOS also has the ability to do this as well. You should be asking
the other vendors for similar support.
Mark
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