On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Joe Abley wrote:
Handing out blocks of 16 to ISPs would probably ease the workload on you CityLink people, and would let ISPs connect people quickly without having to wait for addresses to be allocated.
That was my thinking.
I would suggest that all the addresses in a block of 16 should be accounted for for CityLink's records before any more blocks are allocated - this will let you keep the DNS up-to-date.
That was my thinking as well.
Speaking of the DNS, are CityLink going to be running their own nameserver? Or do you intend to handle the DNS through an ISP?
A bob each way, so to speak. There are parts for two new PC's arriving today, they're in Richard's van. I'll be running up Debian Linux (OS war, anybody? :-) on them, and we should have a couple of BIND 8 name servers going in pretty short order. My plan is to dual home them, one leg on the WIX backbone, the other on a network routed by an ISP (so that the machines will have internet connectivity - worthwhile, since they'll also be our mail/DNS servers). The slowest part will probably be getting that ISP - I sent out a request to all the Citylink connected ISP's today for pricing earlier today, as soon as we choose one and get some IP numbers routed, the DNS servers will be away. Cheers Si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog