On Mon, 18 May 1998, Daniel Reed wrote:

) Nah, good idea, but too many useful services with port numbers > 255, so

I think this seems nice, but gets complex, and as said breaks things, although you could use the full range of a /16. However, we'd really want TWO of everything, on different networks if possible to give resilience, hence why I proposed x.y.z.2 -> resolver x.y.z-1.2 -> resolver Paul ---- P Mansfield, Senior SysAdmin PSINet, +44-1223-577577x2611/577611 fax:577600 *** If a grand piano had a rubout key, I'd be a concert pianist by now! ***