Invisible wrote:
> And what I'm saying is that it just seems that whenever somebody sat 
> down and designed a system for making computers talk to each other, they 
> invisiged a LAN with a quite limited number of nodes.

And yet I've given you half a dozen examples to the contrary. I give up.

>> IP address blocks are managed by IANA - a single organisation.  IANA 
>> does delegate some administrative tasks, but overall they handle the 
>> larger picture.
> 
> That's roughly what I figured.

They handle the top-level allocations of blocks for people who connect to 
the primary backbone. Your ISP isn't one of them.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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