[21272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Nov 9 20:25:18 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:05:40 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, Kim Hubbard <kimh@arin.net>,
Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>, gem@rellim.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811091827.KAA08902@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>; from Roeland M.J. Meyer on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:27:35AM -0800
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:27:35AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> So it goes from a few hundred MB's to a few GBs? What's the big deal. Given
> a trivial CustomerDB, in an RDBMS, it's still under 100 GB for a few
> million IPs. 150 GB of RAID5 is still less than $30KUS and dropping daily,
> even on HP (High Priced <grin>) equipment.
It seemed to be a lot, to me. Of course, if you had every single IPv4
address SWIP'd, that'd be 4,294,967,296 records multiplied by the size
of the record, but not every IP is going to be SWIP'd.
I don't know what it would require in terms of human processing time, if
any.
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