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From: pkrause@triton.unm.edu (Paul Krause CIRT)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: IP Number management
Message-ID: <1991May22.224555.2248@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 22:45:55 GMT
References: <1991May22.130444.1410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991May22.171817.21820@ariel.unm.edu> <1991May22.201938.6749@news.larc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991May22.201938.6749@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <1991May22.171817.21820@ariel.unm.edu> pkrause@triton.unm.edu (Paul Krause CIRT) writes:
>>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
>
>   Oh my god.   This is a joke, right?
>--scott

Only a little.  We have had multiple cases of people erasing their hard drive
and copying all the files from someone else with a resulting conflict.  We 
did have an employee quit, another person start using his machine and him
then coming back and getting a 2nd number.  It does not require a large
intuitive leap to envision more "interesting" problems that I don't know
about yet.
Paul