Re: DoD IP Space

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 2/10/21 19:50, Doug Barton wrote:

> I also reject the premise that any org, no matter how large, needs to 
> uniquely number every endpoint. When I was doing IPAM for a living, 
> not allowing the workstations in Tucson to talk to the printers in 
> Singapore was considered a feature.

Preventing communication exchange between devices does not have to be 
driven by their IP addressing.


> I even had one customer who wanted the printers to all have the same 
> (1918) IP address in every office because they had a lot of sales 
> people who traveled between offices who couldn't handle reconfiguring 
> every time they visited a new location. I thought it was a little too 
> precious personally, but the customer is always right.  :)

It's 2021 - Bonjour. You're welcome :-).

Mark.