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Re: ARIN?

  • From: Steven J. Sobol
  • Date: Mon Nov 09 20:27:06 1998

On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:27:35AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

> So it goes from a few hundred MB's to a few GBs? What's the big deal. Given
> a trivial CustomerDB, in an RDBMS, it's still under 100 GB for a few
> million IPs. 150 GB of RAID5 is still less than $30KUS and dropping daily,
> even on HP (High Priced <grin>) equipment.

It seemed to be a lot, to me. Of course, if you had every single IPv4
address SWIP'd, that'd be 4,294,967,296 records multiplied by the size
of the record, but not every IP is going to be SWIP'd.

I don't know what it would require in terms of human processing time, if
any.

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