Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:41:46PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Ken A wrote:
> > Chris Adams wrote:
> > > Once upon a time, Jo Rhett <jrhett () netconsonance com> said:
> > > > Since  virtual web hosting has no technical justification for IP  
> > > > space, I  refuse it.
> > > SSL and FTP are techincal justifications for an IP per site.
> >
> > Right. Also, monthly bandwidth monitoring/shaping/capping are more  
> > easily done using one ip per hosted domain, or ftp site, or whatever. 
> > Otherwise you are parsing logs or using 3rd party apache modules.
>
> *Shrug* I've been doing IP allocations for 14 years and that's never  
> been mentioned to me.

Oh, you lucky, lucky person.  We've got a couple of customers at the day job
that constantly come back to us for more IP addresses for bandwidth
accounting purposes for their colo machine(s).  Attempts at education are
like talking to a particularly stupid brick wall.

- Matt