[16963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: renumbering and roaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Buxton)
Mon May 18 07:41:16 1998
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 22:22:31 +1000
From: Ben Buxton <bb@zip.com.au>
To: Paul Mansfield <paulm@uk.psi.com>, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mansfield <paulm@uk.psi.com>,
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.980518105250.8122N-100000@staff.uk.psi.com>; from Paul Mansfield on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 10:59:16AM +0100
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael Dillon turned on his computer and typed:
> > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael K. Smith:
> >
> > IMHO every dialup customer from every ISP in the world should use
> > 192.168.254.1 for their DNS address and this number should be hard coded
> > as the default in all client software. Then this problem would go away.
>
> if all ISPs agreed to use these addresses... say
> - TWO resolvers, e.g. 192.168.254,1 and 192.168.253.1
> - two mail relays, e.g. 192.168.254.5 and 192.168.253.5
> - two news servers, e.g. ---254.9 and 253.9
> - two ntp time servers
> - etc etc
Of course, if a customer has a LAN out the back of the same machine
they're connecting from, and it's using these addresses (which
they are entitled to use), then it'll cause immense headaches..
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