Would it be terribly unreasonable to suggest assigning a reserved /24 explicitly for internal ISP services such as those listed below, and write up some sort of rfc for the whole ordeal, so that there are no conflicts with 1918 space? -Blake --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Willis 703-448-4470x483 Network Engineer, New Customers blakew@cais.net CAIS Internet, a CGX Communications Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 18 May 1998, Ben Buxton wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael Dillon turned on his computer and typed:
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael K. Smith:
IMHO every dialup customer from every ISP in the world should use 192.168.254.1 for their DNS address and this number should be hard coded as the default in all client software. Then this problem would go away.
if all ISPs agreed to use these addresses... say - TWO resolvers, e.g. 192.168.254,1 and 192.168.253.1 - two mail relays, e.g. 192.168.254.5 and 192.168.253.5 - two news servers, e.g. ---254.9 and 253.9 - two ntp time servers - etc etc
Of course, if a customer has a LAN out the back of the same machine they're connecting from, and it's using these addresses (which they are entitled to use), then it'll cause immense headaches..
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