> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:08:30AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> > > interestingly, some software vendors ship w/ license
> > > keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise
> > > level stuff. not so easy to update in my experience.
> >
> > I've always thought that practice to be STUPID. It was
> > stupid 15 years ago and it is still stupid today. Yes
> > I've had to renumber sites with keys tied to IP addresses.
>
> stupid or not, it exists and is not ammenable to automation.
Why isn't it? It's just one more message for the management
station to push out.
> > > David is correct, scale does have its own set of renumbering
> > > problems. While i believe you, i think your confidence
> > > is based on some naieve assumptions.
> >
> > I'm not saying scale doesn't have problems. Automation
> > however is the solution to those problems. That's why
> > management stations were invented.
>
> automation can augment renumbering events, but until we
> have a fundamental change in architecture, renumbering will require
> human intervention and will always be disruptive.
It doesn't take a change in architecture. We have the
technology today to remove the need to tie anything to specific
IP addresses. It just requires the willingness to use it.
Mark
> --bill
> Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
> certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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