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From: pkrause@triton.unm.edu (Paul Krause CIRT)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: IP Number management
Message-ID: <1991May22.171817.21820@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 17:18:17 GMT
References: <1991May21.203820.11396@ariel.unm.edu> <1991May22.130444.1410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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In article <1991May22.130444.1410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) writes:
>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?
>-- 
>Pat Wilson
>Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
>paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu

When people change offices they usually take their equipment with them.  I find
that a name is often very usefull in finding a particular machine.  Hard drives
get invloved when John Doe accidently erases his and asks Jane Doe if he can
copy the files from hers.  Now they both have the same number.  However, Jane
doesn't use hers much so they never happen to conflict.  Jane gets a job in
another department of the university where they buy her a new pc and she gets
another IP number.  Harry is hired to replace Jane, he likes his pc so now
we get a call from John that he is having conflict problems. 

Paul