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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Tony Tauber wrote: > > > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:36:27PM -0400, Derek Samford wrote: > > > > Shane, > > > > There is a practice on that (At least here.). > > > > Generally we provide a Class C to our customers at no > > > > additional charge, but we have > > > > > > Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we > > > still refering to "class C"'s? > > > > At least as importantly, why do 254 addresses get provided where the > > actual need might not warrant that quantity? > > Because it's easier to do the reverse DNS? Sorry to contribute to the > general noise, but that answer's close to the truth. > these days you can easily delegate reverse using CIDR with BIND ... http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2317.html -chris > -- > ...some sort of steganographic chaffing and winnowing scheme > already exists in practice right here: I frequently find myself > having to sort through large numbers of idiotic posts to find > the good ones. -- Rufus Faloofus >
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