IP Routing Question

[Mike Coleman]

Gerald Combs <gerald at zing.org> writes:
> Why does UMKC have the entire 134.193/16 block, when it could more
> reasonably and securely get by on a couple of class Cs in front of a private
> net?

I agree in general, but in this particular case, I'd be happy to see education
institutions continue to use public addresses as needed.  NAT and private
networks pretty much mean negotiating and getting approval every time you want
to expose a port to the world.  This seems unneeded and counterproductive in
an academic environment, IMO.  (I certainly would have gotten less
accomplished during my time at UMKC with this restriction.)

How about IPv6 instead?

--Mike

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