>>>>> "bill" == bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bill> Ohta-san, would you be comfortable with 200,000,000
bill> devices being shipped with the IP address 131.112.32.188
bill> (the address of one of your organizations nameservers) being
bill> burned into eeprom?
bill> Yes, I know we do it now and it reduces the level of
bill> effort in getting new features deployed, but in -EVERY-
bill> case, the use of well known addresses has caused problems.
Like Netgear hard-wiring the address of a University of Wisconsin NTP
server into the firmware of ther products. Every one of those boxes
sends an NTP request once a second to that UoW server. See
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp
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