[16976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: renumbering and roaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Vandry)
Mon May 18 14:22:17 1998
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:06:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
To: Paul Mansfield <paulm@uk.psi.com>
cc: nanoh@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 18:15:33 EDT."
<Pine.GSO.3.93.980518181358.1347O-100000@staff.uk.psi.com>
> On Mon, 18 May 1998, Blake Willis wrote:
>
> > Would it be terribly unreasonable to suggest assigning a reserved /24
> > explicitly for internal ISP services such as those listed below, and write
> > up some sort of rfc for the whole ordeal, so that there are no conflicts
> > with 1918 space?
> >
> > -Blake
>
> Anyone care to co-author an RFC suggesting a sensible global standard for
> "local" mail relays, time servers, resolvers etc so that dial-in people can
> roam without getting filtered, blocked etc?
How about defining 192.x.y.port-number, where port-number is the port
number of the service. 192.x.y.53 is the DNS server, etc..
Nah, good idea, but too many useful services with port numbers > 255, so
it doesn't work too well.
-Phil
