On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:19:11PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > I would take issue with that. All of the regional registries require > extremely good justification for allocating static IP addresses to > transient network connections.
Demon (a big ISP in .uk) allocate static IP addresses for *.demon.co.uk). They have a number of class B's, and I believe that RIPE (European IP registry) are quite happy with Demon's very efficient use of this space. > Other times the reason is "so the customer can carry on downloading > after the line dropped" to which the answer is "maintain your access > servers properly and this won't happen". Noise on the line, house mates inadvertently picking up the 'phone, plain bad luck. . . > Anyway, this is off-topic. Back to your scheduled programming. Agreed, Reply-to: points back to me. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <37514...@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message