On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Simon Blake wrote:
Seriously, anybody have a good feeling for how Citylink should administer these numbers? My first thought was to hand them out in blocks of 16 to the ISP's, who can then use them to number their clients routers, and notify us of additions so that we can update forward and reverse DNS records. Alternatively, we could hand them out /32 at a time as we do new connections (and back fill for existing connections, obviously). Preferences?
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.
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.
Speaking of the DNS, are CityLink going to be running their own
nameserver? Or do you intend to handle the DNS through an ISP?
Joe
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Joe Abley