11 Jul
2005
11 Jul
'05
12:24 a.m.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
These three specify a site using the upstream, which might not be necessary. There are actually sites on this planet (and maybe others ;) that need address space and are never going to connected to the Internet.
classically, if they have no plan to be connected, they don't get address space.
randy
may have been true when the only network was ARPAnet. with the advent of Internet, if you could demonstrate runing IP you could get addresses (mostly true) remember the "connected/unconnected" database? --bill