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Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up
From: matthew () scruz net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:23:42 -0800
Original message <MAPI.Id.0016.00657465726420204333343130303138 () MAPI to.RFC822> From: Peter Dawe <peterd () dial pipex com> Date: Jan 28, 18:46 Subject: Static IP addresses for Dial-up
Demon Internet Services provide an IP address for every dial-up customer. Most other ISPs have taken the view that this is a waste of valuable IP space and allocate IP addresses dynamically. How should our industry respond to ISPs who behave selfishly and do not take into account the good of the network?
The access-control argument has been beaten to death already. We offer our customers static IP addresses for some additional reasons: - ability to receive mail by SMTP instead of POP - ability to run a part time WWW or BBS service at a fixed address - support for systems that don't easily support dynamic addresses (some Unix machines with hand-coded dialup scripts) and most importantly - ability to do disconnect-and-redial without breaking connections, which is particularly useful with ISDN. You can telnet somewhere, get idled out of the ISDN server, hit return and your ISDN adapter auto-redials and connects and your packet goes through, and you're still on the same address so everything works. Customers on flakey dialup lines (28.8k from up in the mountains during bad weather) appreciate this too. -matthew kaufman matthew () scruz net
Current thread:
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up, (continued)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Paul Ferguson (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Robert Elz (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Piet Beertema (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up bmanning (Jan 30)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Lixia Zhang (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Matt Crawford (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Sanjay Dani (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Paul Ferguson (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Robert Elz (Jan 30)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Paul Ferguson (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Matthew Kaufman (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Robert A. Rosenberg (Jan 29)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Paul Ferguson (Jan 30)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Robert Elz (Jan 30)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up marthag (Jan 30)
- Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up Paul Ferguson (Jan 29)