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Re: customers and web servers and level one naps

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Thu Sep 5 16:53:00 1996

To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: stuart@pa.dec.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 05 Sep 96 14:21:11 -0400.
             <199609051821.OAA28968@netaxs.com> 
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 96 13:22:04 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@pa.dec.com>

> > Second:  allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> > directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
> > 
> > PAIX is doing this.  As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> > are not.  I am wondering why.
> 
> Umm, they were, shall we say, unclear.  I heard from one PAIX source that
> they would give IPs to hosts (non-routers), but another source (at ISPCon)
> said that they wouldn't.
> 
> I'd like to know the answer to this (re: PAIX.  No other exchange that I 
> know of gives IPs for use by non-routers that aren't RA machines).  It's 
> well-know nthat ploth has a host on the Sprintlink && Pennsauken 
> gigaswitches @ Pennsauken, but I'm quite sure he doesn't run web services 
> on it :)

The only devices for which I have or ever will assign IP addresses on
the PAIX network are ISP routers, route servers (2), and layer 2
devices that have IP addresses for SNMP management. If you heard
anything different from anyone else, they're wrong.

Stephen

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