On Sunday, May 17, 1998 5:56 AM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael@memra.com] wrote: @On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael K. Smith wrote: @ @> Let's not forget to mention the 10,000 dialup customers who have to @> change their DNS numbers. We have sent snail-mail and e-mail over and @> over again, yet only about 1/3 of that 10k have actually made the change @> away from the old numbers. How many of those customers do you think @> we'll lose when we officially turn off the old ip's? @ @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. @ In doing that people would be moving in a direction toward IPv8. In IPv8, some IP addresses are viewed as "opaque handles" which are more like virtual addresses in a large distributed computer system. They can also be viewed as "locally-routed, specific-service, addresses". The following RFC 1918 IPv4 address ranges play a key role in the IPv8 0:0.x.x.x.x address space. User - DHCP Sub-Nets - 0:0.10.x.x.x Group - ISP Infrastructure - 0:0.172.16.0.0-0:0.172.31.0.0 World - Inter-ISP Links and Services - 0:0.192.168.1.x-0:0.192.168.254.x - Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.net IPv8 - Designed for the Rest of the Human Race AM Radio Stations ---> http://www.DOT.AM