[MLB-WIRELESS] ip allocation list based on suburb

Drew Whittle drew at blackalbatross.com
Wed Feb 13 13:36:44 EST 2002


On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:10, darrend at natwide.com.au wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this has been mentioned before....
> We all agree that we'll eventually need to use an ip routing protocol (ie
> not static routes) to allow for redundancy and multihoming. That being the
> case, it does NOT matter what ip's are allocated where. Forget about this

You still want to minimise the complexity of your routing.

> suburb, postcode or whatever else crap for IP's. Remember why DNS was
> invented???

Because it is easier for people to remember words than a string of
numbers. DNS has _nothing_ to do with routing.

:D
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