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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: renumbering and roaming
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 11:38:04AM -0700, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Paul Man > sfield writes: > > >On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael Dillon turned on his computer and typed: > >> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Michael K. Smith: > >> > >> IMHO every dialup customer from every ISP in the world should use > >> 192.168.254.1 for their DNS address and this number should be hard coded > >> as the default in all client software. Then this problem would go away. > > > >if all ISPs agreed to use these addresses... say > > - TWO resolvers, e.g. 192.168.254,1 and 192.168.253.1 > > - two mail relays, e.g. 192.168.254.5 and 192.168.253.5 > > - two news servers, e.g. ---254.9 and 253.9 > > - two ntp time servers > > - etc etc > > > >[the addresses chosen for /30 netmasks, I think that in my Monday morning > >brain-state I got it right?] > > > >And so on for "standard" services, then we could achieve global roaming SO > >easily. > > > >The number of times we've had customers roam elsewhere and then try > >and use ou r mail relays when for spam reasons relaying is denied... > > After several discussions, we came up with this solution that we think > works well to support standard services for roaming users: > > Support a .local. root domain in your DNS servers. Examples of DNS > hostnames would be mail.local., ntp.local., news.local., etc. When a > roamer dials up he generally uses the DNS servers assigned by the NAS; > these addresses would be authoritative on a provider-by-provider > basis. If all networks supported this schema all users could simply > have these addresses coded into their client software and would > connect to the proper machines as they differ on various networks. > > iPass is currently building an Internet-Draft specifying the details > of this approach. What do you think? > > --Michael That doesn't work; too many of those things must be hard-coded numbers (specifically, the DNS servers). .LOCAL along with defined addresses, declared as "non-routable" (ie: local only) *DOES* do the trick. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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