[16959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Mon May 18 05:06:38 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: Blake Willis <blakew@cais.net>
Cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: 18 May 1998 08:56:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: Blake Willis's message of "Sun, 17 May 1998 14:52:50 -0400 (EDT)"
In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.980517144158.13470A-100000@chele.cais.com>,
Blake Willis <blakew@cais.net> wrote:
> IMHO every dialup customer, the vast majority of which use Windows 95,
> should have their machines set up to get the DNS servers, routing info,
> etc. from the terminal server they dial in to.
This would be ok if the dialup users used DHCP, but instead they only
seem to be able to use the layering violation that Microsoft calls a
PPP "extension".
--
Shields, CrossLink.
