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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > > I'm going to make a pitch for the IP-address based method. > > Specifically, if you have a set of well known IP addresses for common > services, thus something like: > > 223.255.255.1 - Primary DNS > 223.255.255.2 - Secondary DNS > 223.255.255.3 - SMTP Mail > 223.255.255.4 - Time Server > > You could very easily support this in ANY network. No additional > HW/software required. Just IP addresses, which are completely free and as easily available as tap water, right? I run 3 of the aforementioned services on a box at home using a single IP. Are you suggesting that I should need 3 IP addresses within a specific range in a netblock to do so? Somehow I fail to see how this is a particularly stellar idea. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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