Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?
by closeparen on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:42AM
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I did IT support at a car dealership where some ancient line-of-business software needed a public IP for every Windows desktop it ran on to function properly.
No justifiable purpose, sure, but I can only imagine the tons and tons of legacy line-of-business crap out there with assumptions like this.
Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?
by jsjohnst on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:50AM
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You nailed why I threw in the word justified intentionally. There’s plenty of reasons a public IP could be needed, but not justifiably (to me, your example perfectly illustrates that).
No justifiable purpose, sure, but I can only imagine the tons and tons of legacy line-of-business crap out there with assumptions like this.