On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
I'm going to make a pitch for the IP-address based method.
Specifically, if you have a set of well known IP addresses for common services, thus something like:
223.255.255.1 - Primary DNS 223.255.255.2 - Secondary DNS 223.255.255.3 - SMTP Mail 223.255.255.4 - Time Server
You could very easily support this in ANY network. No additional HW/software required.
Just IP addresses, which are completely free and as easily available as tap water, right? I run 3 of the aforementioned services on a box at home using a single IP. Are you suggesting that I should need 3 IP addresses within a specific range in a netblock to do so? Somehow I fail to see how this is a particularly stellar idea. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/