[21205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Sat Nov 7 21:26:19 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 18:08:59 -0800
To: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: phil@whistler.intur.net, bross@mindspring.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811080144.UAA00870@heimdall.ttsg.com>
At 08:44 PM 11/7/98 -0500, TTSG wrote:
>>
>> The need for static IP comes from them wanting to run their own web-server.
>>
> Not necessarily. I asked an ISP for a static IP for security
>reasons. ("Trusted hosts" and stuff like that there)
Notice, I never said otherwise. The web-server is a trivial and common
example. Security issues are substantially less familiar to most folk.
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