[26642] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Tue Jan 11 01:16:07 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:12:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
>
> I'm going to make a pitch for the IP-address based method.
>
> Specifically, if you have a set of well known IP addresses for common
> services, thus something like:
>
> 223.255.255.1 - Primary DNS
> 223.255.255.2 - Secondary DNS
> 223.255.255.3 - SMTP Mail
> 223.255.255.4 - Time Server
>
> You could very easily support this in ANY network. No additional
> HW/software required.
Just IP addresses, which are completely free and as easily available as
tap water, right?
I run 3 of the aforementioned services on a box at home using a single
IP. Are you suggesting that I should need 3 IP addresses within a
specific range in a netblock to do so?
Somehow I fail to see how this is a particularly stellar idea.
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Patrick Greenwell
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