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Re: IP address fee??
- From: Christopher Schulte
- Date: Thu Sep 05 15:24:29 2002
At 11:39 AM 9/5/2002 -0700, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> 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.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2317.html
Easier maybe... But with classless delegation of IN-ADDR.ARPA
this should not be an issue any longer.
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the good ones. -- Rufus Faloofus
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