[30917] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Fri Sep 1 15:41:24 2000
From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:37:52 -0400
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> > Erm, I thought napster worked OK through NAT...
>
> Not if both sides are using NAT. And, since what we're talking about here is
> getting EVERYBODY to use it, it thus stands to reason that this would be the
> case.
Exactly. Finally somebody who gets it.
> NAT is a kludge. IP was made to use addresses, anything else is a kludge and
> always will be.
Perhaps it's time for this forum and others to seriously worry about IPv6
deployment, instead of finding yet another fix for the fix of a fix to further
break a broken allocation model.
Anyone who believes that you can somehow permanently slow of freeze the need
for ip addresses significantly needs a reality check, IMHO.
--
Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect Architecture, BellSouth.net
<ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Atlanta, GA
"Speaking for myself only."
