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Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
- From: Aaron Dewell
- Date: Wed Sep 17 20:20:59 2003
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Justin Shore wrote:
> Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC
> addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be
> reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a
> MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I
> personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone
> did.
Why not IPv6 addresses? Some designated prefix? There are enough addresses
in 2^128 that we can all be happy...
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