[Gllug] Public IPs - When are they appropriate

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 12 Nov 2001, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
>On 11/12/01, 12:19:57 PM, tet at accucard.com wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] 
>>Of course, there's no reason why you couldn't just have your DHCP server
>>allocate public IP addresses (although unless you've got dynamic DNS, the
>>advantages of a public IP address would be lost).
>I know people keep making that argument for the sake of purity but it 
>offends my sense of economy.  Why waste a public ip address on something 
>that doesn't need it

It's not wasted. There isn't a shortage of public IP addresses; what
there is a shortage of is room for huge chunks of empty space. That's
why Demon are still able to allocate one static IP address per
customer; that's actually pretty efficient usage.

>IP address to your toaster definitely isn't one of the smart ones.  The 
>spiel is that there will be no more ip shortages when IPv6 is here but 
>Parkinson's Law tells me that is wrong - especially if a profligate 
>attitude to assigning IP addresses is positively encouraged.

I don't think you realise just how many IPv6 addresses there are.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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