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From: paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
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Subject: Re: IP Number management
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Date: 22 May 91 13:04:44 GMT
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pkrause@triton.unm.edu (Paul Krause CIRT) writes:

>We have several thousand numbers out there and while we have a database of
>who is assigned each number, it is static.  With the way people 
>move around, hard drives get trashed, employees are hired or replaced, etc.
>the data gets stale real fast. 

It's never occurred to me to assign IP numbers to _people_ rather
than machines - what are your reasons for doing things this way?
How does a hard drive getting trashed affect the IP number, anyway?


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Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu