[MLB-WIRELESS] ip allocation list based on suburb

[darrend at natwide.com.au]

Darren Dreis
IT Manager
Nationwide Digital Products P/L
Tel 03 9548 9444  Fax 03 9548 9040



                                                                                                
                    Drew Whittle                                                                
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                                           Subject:     Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] ip allocation list   
                    14/02/2002             based on suburb                                      
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On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:10, darrend at natwide.com.au wrote:
>
>> I'm sure this has been mentioned before....
>> We all agree that we'll eventually need to use an ip routing protocol
(ie
>> not static routes) to allow for redundancy and multihoming. That being
the
>> case, it does NOT matter what ip's are allocated where. Forget about
this

>You still want to minimise the complexity of your routing.

Complex routing will be unavoidable, I think we all know that. It's not
like we're going to be using baby routers with 2MB flash. Even a crappy 486
running xnix could support tens of thousands of dynamic routing entries.

>> suburb, postcode or whatever else crap for IP's. Remember why DNS was
>> invented???

>Because it is easier for people to remember words than a string of
>numbers. DNS has _nothing_ to do with routing.

That was meant to be a retorical question.




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