On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ben Ryan wrote:
But, IPv4 address space will be used up, sooner or later certainly before anonymous ftp become obsoleted and, perhaps, a lot sooner than most of you expect and
All: Clearly things are not nearly as bad as some would like us to believe and there should be no doubt that there are much larger pastures to farm than having Web hosting companies convert to Name based virtual Web services. For one, how many of the Class A allocations are going largely unused? Some mostly don't even route. Until those massive segments of address space are brought up to the same efficiency of utilization as the typical ISP and Web hosting companies achieve, I think it's going to be hard to convince many of us to comprimise our services to save a few hundred or even a few thousand addresses. Chuck Scott Gaslight Media