[MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?
Luke Schapel
lschapel at bigpond.com
Tue Feb 12 23:11:28 EST 2002
Yeah one day that will come true.
In the meantime we will try and find an ip address range for Geelong
Adrian Close wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Luke Schapel wrote:
>
> > Why is this group so intent on global addressing!
>
> Because what we are building is going to be part of the Internet (big I)
> regardless of what people might think.
So, when?
>
> Read this and note it well: Connect a network to the Internet and it
> becomes part of the Internet.
Not when it's behind a firewall.
>
> A large part of what makes the Internet work is global integrity in things
> like addressing and DNS. Mess with this and you threaten the stability
> and usability of the network as a whole. Hacks like RFC1918 and NAT
> simply keep us going while we figure out the right engineering solutions.
But those hacks WORK and as you say you haven't got it all figured out
yet.
>
> Start thinking of the Internet as "the network" and you're on the right
> track.
>
> I'm not joking.
Are you sure?
>
> Adrian Close email: adrian at close.wattle.id.au
> 1 Old Gippsland Rd. web: http://www.close.wattle.id.au/~adrian
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>
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