[4064] in North American Network Operators' Group
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