[MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?

Luke Schapel lschapel at bigpond.com
Tue Feb 12 23:11:28 EST 2002


Yeah one day that will come true.
In the meantime we will try and find an ip address range for Geelong

Adrian Close wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Luke Schapel wrote:
> 
> > Why is this group so intent on global addressing!
> 
> Because what we are building is going to be part of the Internet (big I)
> regardless of what people might think.

So, when?

> 
> Read this and note it well:  Connect a network to the Internet and it
> becomes part of the Internet.

Not when it's behind a firewall.

> 
> A large part of what makes the Internet work is global integrity in things
> like addressing and DNS.  Mess with this and you threaten the stability
> and usability of the network as a whole.  Hacks like RFC1918 and NAT
> simply keep us going while we figure out the right engineering solutions.

But those hacks WORK and as you say you haven't got it all figured out
yet.

> 
> Start thinking of the Internet as "the network" and you're on the right
> track.
> 
> I'm not joking.

Are you sure?

> 
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