Gerald Combs 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 -- [O]ne of the features of the Internet [...] is that small groups of people can greatly disturb large organizations. --Charles C. Mann