[62364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Dewell)
Wed Sep 17 20:19:36 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:19:11 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>
To: Justin Shore <listuser@numbnuts.net>
Cc: bdragon@gweep.net, Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309171846480.27081-100000@bubba.numbnuts.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Justin Shore wrote:
> Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC
> addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be
> reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a
> MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I
> personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone
> did.
Why not IPv6 addresses? Some designated prefix? There are enough addresses
in 2^128 that we can all be happy...
