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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Fri, 28 March 2003 19:58 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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> > Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) 
> > automagically with each DNS registration?
> 
> Routing Table Bloat.  If you can figure out how to do this in a CIDR
> aggregation context, or otherwise work around the table problem, the
> IETF and NANOG will quite certainly jointly nominate you for
> sainthood. ;)

...right after you get lynched for heresy.

Keith

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