MediaOne dns problems

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

On 10 Apr 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Ron Peterson <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com> writes:
>
> > According to who?  Sure, that's what MediaOne's marketing department calls
> > it, but as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing "premium" about a static
> > IP address.  In fact, it would be less work for them to manage than
> > rolling them.
>
> Actually, that's not true.  Unless they have a good "plan" in place,
> they may need to re-subnet the town as more users come online.
> Remember that your whole town is NOT on one subnet.  Generally you are
> subnetted by fiber node, which can handle several neighborhoods.  As
> the neighborhoods get saturated with users, they need to partition the
> space, hense a renumbering.

Umm, of course.  Excuse me while I backpedal and eat crow...

-Ron-
GPG and other info at: http://www.yellowbank.com/


-
Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the
message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).