DNS / IPV6 Gibberish

[Michael Voight]

Duh... Addresses aren't being thrown out in groups of 10,000.
A Class A network gets 256*256*256 or 16.78 million.

However, addresses are being recovered due to the increases in security
and the use of NAT. The author of this article does not appear to
understand this. However, it does makes sense if ip's had some numbering
scheme that was geographically related, like IP v6. This would make for
much more efficent routing schemes.

Michael


Mark.Kasper at icn.siemens.com wrote:
> 
> This is an experpt from article on CMP Tech Net (see link below). Enjoy.
> 
>  "The other argument for IPv6 is that it would let us solve the
>   forthcoming domain-name-address shortage. Yes, we're running out
>   of domain-name addresses, but perhaps we can address that by
>   reducing the number of Internet addresses you get with each
>   domain name. Throwing blocks of 10,000 addresses in with each
>   Class A name should be a Class A felony; why not just blocks of
>   1,000 addresses, each of which can handle up to 10,000 virtual
>   addresses in subnets? Let's make the current holders of Class A
>   domain names cough up some of their addresses."
> 
> "Richard Adhikari is a leading journalist on advanced-IP issues for several
> major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, and is a regular
> contributor to Planet IT."
> 
> http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/advanced_ip_services/opinion/PIT19990816S0013
> 
> Regards,
> Mark