Re: IP address fee??

[Christian Malo <chris () fiberpimp net>]

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


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