MediaOne dns problems

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Ron Peterson <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com> writes:

> According to who?  Sure, that's what MediaOne's marketing department calls
> it, but as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing "premium" about a static
> IP address.  In fact, it would be less work for them to manage than
> rolling them.

Actually, that's not true.  Unless they have a good "plan" in place,
they may need to re-subnet the town as more users come online.
Remember that your whole town is NOT on one subnet.  Generally you are
subnetted by fiber node, which can handle several neighborhoods.  As
the neighborhoods get saturated with users, they need to partition the
space, hense a renumbering.

No, dynamic addressing is MUCH easier for them in the long run.  The
stability of your dynamic address is really a factor of how well they
planned and how well they stick to that plan.

-derek

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