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Re: Static/Dynamic Debate Was: Need help to connect to ISP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin)
Sat Feb 3 13:19:53 1996
From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: erich@basenet.com (Eric Hester)
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:44:43 -0600 (CST)
Cc: ecarp@netcom.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602031734.MAA13136@basenet.basenet.com> from "Eric Hester" at Feb 3, 96 12:34:36 pm
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> >If I am advertising to the outside world that my services reside on
> >ppp01.basenet.com, and the connection drops, am I guaranteed that I will
> >get ppp01.basenet.com the next time around? Think about it.
>
> I have said time and time again that I DO GIVE STATIC IPs to those who need
> it for incoming traffic. VERY FEW people need that, most of my users barely
> understand that there is more to the internet than netscape.. I am trying to
> educate them, but it is safe to say way more than half of them will NEVER
> get any farther than email and www surfing,, they simply dont need to get
> the same IP each time because they dont get incoming ftp/www/etc... thats my
> point, why give someone something they dont need, when it is wasteful to do
> so...
I never said that it was - I was just explaining that there *is*
legitimate uses for static IP addresses.
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