Then we have a special /24 or so that is in another RFC that is "service provider independent service addresses". Allocate it out of the swamp (192.x.x.x for those too young) and treat it just like private address space, but the convention is that no one uses it for "corporate" addressing. Peter
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Ben Buxton Sent: Monday, May 18, 1998 1:23 PM To: Paul Mansfield; Michael Dillon Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: renumbering and roaming
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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