[30894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Fri Sep 1 08:08:22 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 07:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>,
"John A. Tamplin" <jat@liveonthenet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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> When we are deciding that IP savings, etc are worth it, why not make all
> Cable/DSL/Dialup providers use NAT to map access logins to a small pool of
> IPs too? The software to do that transparently is already available for a
> very high percentage of applications. Heck, even upstreams could then NAT
> their downstreams' pools of IPs. We could run the whole internet off a
> single class C again.
We have been NATing a large percentage of our customers for years
with great results, even delivering email behind the NAT by using
a relay mail server. When I am scrambling for IP space and my requests
for a portable /20 or even a portable /24 are denied, and cable/adsl..
providers put obtuse end users on live IP's.......
The security and hacking problems alone make this a good idea.
This is a far bigger problem I fear than web hosting. Most of us
use Virtual Hosts for many good reasons already, only WinNT is a pain
to setup for virtual hosting, and even it works. --Mike--
