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RE: Broken Internet? [OT]

  • From: David Schwartz
  • Date: Tue Mar 13 20:47:52 2001 
> Any business needs:
> 1. to be able to change upstream providers without having to renumber.

	Why not just keep it easy to renumber. It's only hard to renumber if you
make it that way.

> 2. to be able to change access providers without having to suffer
> multi-month down-times.

	If your company relies on your access, you need more than one provider. You
can easily dual number every server you have. That way, if you lose one
provider, change DNS a bit and use just the other. You can then renumber the
other side of the dual numbering at your leisure with a new ISP.

> 3. to be able to have its net-block(s) visible regardless of which ISPs
> they are currently using.

	Design to renumber. If you need reliability, get two of everything. It's
really almost that simple.

	DS