To:
bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
cc:
mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta), Alain.Durand@sun.com (Alain Durand), itojun@iijlab.net, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com>
Date:
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:17:50 +0000
In-reply-to:
Your message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:32:59 PST." <200311121532.hACFWxX00449@karoshi.com>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: well-known addresses / was DNS discovery
>>>>> "bill" == bill <bmanning@karoshi.com> writes:
bill> Ohta-san, would you be comfortable with 200,000,000
bill> devices being shipped with the IP address 131.112.32.188
bill> (the address of one of your organizations nameservers) being
bill> burned into eeprom?
bill> Yes, I know we do it now and it reduces the level of
bill> effort in getting new features deployed, but in -EVERY-
bill> case, the use of well known addresses has caused problems.
Like Netgear hard-wiring the address of a University of Wisconsin NTP
server into the firmware of ther products. Every one of those boxes
sends an NTP request once a second to that UoW server. See
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp
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