Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

[Aaron Dewell <acd () woods net>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Justin Shore wrote:
> Even MACs aren't entirely unique.  Some places used to assign MAC
> addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be
> reconfigured for the assigned MAC.  An admin was freely able to assign a
> MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution.  I
> personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone
> did.

Why not IPv6 addresses?  Some designated prefix?  There are enough addresses
in 2^128 that we can all be happy...