Re: ARIN?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 11:37 PM 11/8/98 -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:01:13PM -0500, Kim Hubbard wrote:
>
> > By asking you not to SWIP assignments longer than /29 ARIN is not
> > encouraging you to not issue them, we just don't think it's necessary
> > to have every single dialup user listed in WHOIS.
>
> I have to agree with Kim. That's why I shuddered when I thought of
> every single static IP address at every ISP being SWIP'd. It would increase
> ARIN's database exponentially and is not necessary.

So it goes from a few hundred MB's to a few GBs? What's the big deal. Given
a trivial CustomerDB, in an RDBMS, it's still under 100 GB for a few
million IPs. 150 GB of RAID5 is still less than $30KUS and dropping daily,
even on HP (High Priced <grin>) equipment.
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