> Robert Elz writes:
> > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:26:44 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > | But the real problem was renumbering. That
> > | still hasn't gone away.
> >
> > No, and that's why we need these things - so when renumbering happens,
> > our internal addresses (the ones I use to mount my filesystems from
> > the fileserver, etc, which stay in use for months or years between
> > reboots) don't alter.
>
> I guess I get off the merry-go-round here because
> I'm having a hard time imagining a deployment where
> it's OK to hose general internet connectivity, so
> long as other local services are kept up. Somehow
> I don't expect that the user population counting on
> their pr0n will be mollifed to find out that they
> can still download their PHB's powerpoints.
>
> YMMV.
>
> Mike
Well you have a very poor imagination and understanding of
typical connection patterns. 99.99% of external connections
are short lived. Those that arn't short lived take a hit
when the address renumbers. This is why certian providers
can get away with *forcing* a address change every 24 hours
today.
However if you put a NFS server on a machine that has its
address change every 24 hours then have a 10000 mounts off
that server spread over 1000 machines and see what happens.
NFS isn't the only protocol where long running connections
are the norm *inside* a site. Things like SSH/X11/TELNET
all tend to have much longer running sessions intra site.
Mark
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