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Static/Dynamic Debate Was: Need help to connect to ISP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hester)
Sat Feb 3 14:29:03 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:31:07 -0500
To: ecarp@netcom.com
From: Eric Hester <erich@basenet.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
At 10:07 AM 2/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Untrue. Static IPs are necessary under the following conditions:
>
> 1. You want to let other people use services that you offer
> on your box, such as anonymous FTP or telnet. In this
> case, using a dynamic IP is next to useless.
how so? if they have domain names (i.e. ppp01.basenet.com, ppp02, ppp03,
etc), why would they be useless? I dont understand your reasoning. how can a
dynamic IP make services useless?? an IP with no reverse dns can do that,
but there is no technical difference between a dynamic and static IP other
than the problems it presents for people who want to do #2 below, but for
those cases Ill give static IP's.. but joe-blow doesnt need nor even
understand static vs. dynamic..
> 2. You want to use either SOCKS or IP masquerading to let
> a bunch of hosts 'hide' behind you. This is a more
> efficient way of doing things than assigning either a
> bunch of IP addresses for dynamic IP or a block of
> class C addresses for hosts. In fact, I don't see why
> an entire organization couldn't live with just one IP
> address if all they want to do is let people do outbound
> services. In fact, that's exactly what our 5000+
> person organization does. We have a firewall that is
> advertised (with a static IP) - then everyone hides
> behind that one machine. We use SOCKS instead of IP
> masquerading, because SOCKS is far easier to install on
> a commercial box than IP masquerading is - we want to keep
> our kernels standard.
Well, that is what I said in my previous post, if they need a static IP for
something like that, they can have one, but WHY would I give EVERYONE a
static IP when there is no reason for it.
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