[MLB-WIRELESS] ip allocation list based on suburb

[Darren Fulton]

Dwayne hit on something there that makes me tend to agree with Dave,
councils amalgamate and boundaries change. In a few years any geographic
allocation scheme valid now may be broken. I assume that postcodes are
stable, but I it still leads to inefficient use of the address range. The
dual aims of IP allocation that is geographically meaningful and galactic
scalability are not compatible with a limited address range.

Darren
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Keller" <goose at bay.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] ip allocation list based on suburb


>
> Why not just allocate the ips whichever way required and use reverse DNS
to
> give more meaningful geographic information?
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 09:58:27 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] ip allocation list based on suburb
>
> "drew at no6.com" wrote:
> >
> > When I first saw this I thought, yeah, that's a cool idea... have
10.1.xx
> for melb, 10.2.x.x for richmond, etc, etc. then I went to http://www
> street-directory.com.au/map_australia.cgi?fileand did a grep of how many
suburbs there are in Victoria... 660. so that
> throws a wrench into the 255 suburb list. we could always group together
the
> less populated suburbs into 2 or 3 sharing one number. does anyone have a
> list of the populations for all the suburbs? maybe i could automagically
> generate an allocation list. that is, if we do want to go this way, which
I
> think still needs to be decided on.
>
> How many councils are there?
>
> Remember they were all amalgamated...
>
> Dwayne
>
>
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