But there is a certain difficulty experienced by sites who are able to keep a stable prefix, but their prefix is, say /21 instead of /19. I'm not saying it's the internic's problem, or that it's sprint/agis/whomever's problem. I'm just saying that it is a problem for sites that want reliable, low latency connections to two or three providers. Oh yeah, and don't suggest the "ask one of your providers to give you a hole" solution. I've tried that. From my experience the more "special" requests you make the more likely your link is to be screwed up by human error at some point. Dean On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Kim Hubbard wrote:
I'm beginning to think there is a market for a device which has 1 Ethernet port and responds to any RANGE of addresses, so you can scam Internic into thinking you have 100% utilization of your address space, right off the bat...
Yeah, because the conservation of IP space only helps InterNIC - it doesn't help you or your customers or anyone else on the Internet. Let's just use up all the address space....that'll teach the InterNIC!
Kim
Eric